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On the date of our Charter Anniversary we're going out to dinner

Volunteer Street Marshal Bags are ready for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic

THANKS to volunteers Harold, John S, Barry, George, Trish and Di who came for the First "stuffing" session completed Thursday 15 February! Volunteer bags for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic are now ready with high-viz vest, water bottle, energy bar, plastic gloves and important details about the event.

Next Monday 19 February there's another "stuffing" session. That will be for the almost 2,000 envelopes that need important information to be sent out to riders. Operation countdown has begun for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic has begun and so the excitement mounts!

Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is not just about romantic love between couples. It is the heartfelt sentiment we have for all our family members, our friends, our community, and it also embraces all the human family we share this planet with. It reminds us that more than ever what the world needs now is our love and kindness. It's the message of Rotary International and a reason the Rotary Club of St Ives, NSW - District 9685 celebrates this day.

Something to contemplate

We're celebrating Australia Day Wednesday 24 January 2024

As we gear up to celebrate our nation's pride on Australia Day, Rotary Club of St Ives invites club members for an Australia Day BBQ celebration Wednesday 24 January at “The Crofts” at 5.00pm.

This is a wonderful occasion to catch up, share stories, experiences, and laughter as we reflect on the beauty of our diverse nation and Rotary family.

RSVP at attend@stivesrotary.asn.au and EFT your payment of $25pp into Rotary Club of St Ives Account BSB: 633000 Account: 161 181 334 Be sure to ref: 'your name' BBQ 24/1

Dress in your best Aussie attire, whether it's a classic green and gold ensemble or your favourite Aussie flag themed accessories.

Let's come together to celebrate the land Down Under and the spirit of mateship that defines our Rotary Club.

See you there, and don't forget to bring your Aussie spirit!

Tree of Joy Reflections

Tree of Joy is only possible because of the generosity and kindness of our community! Here are just some of the wonderful faces that visited the tree, took cards and returned gifts.

Listen to Harold Morgan's interview on Triple H with Ian Stuart

Monday 18 December is the final day for gifts to be returned to the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy. Tuesday the reconciliation of gifts returned will occur to make sure no-one misses out on their requested gift. Wednesday Rotarians will shop for any gifts that were not returned and then Thursday 21 December the gifts will be delivered to the nursing homes.

Rather than try to publish two copies of The Waratah this week there will be a full report published later this week so that we can share the whole story of the Tree of Joy.

Harold Morgan gave a fabulous interview to Ian Stuart, Rotary Matters, about the Tree of Joy and you are invited to listen to the podcast on Triple H Community Radio at: Stream Spreading The Joy Of Christmas With St Ives Rotary by Rotary Matters | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Congratulations on a wonderful review of the Tree of Joy Harold! Photo below shows Harold and John checking their lists to make sure everyone who has requested a gift will have one on Christmas Day.

BOOK NOW FOR EARLY BIRD SPECIAL PRICE FOR OUR DISTRICT CONFERENCE

There are only 6 weeks left to take advantage of the Early Bird Full District Conference (15-16 March 2024) Registration Rate. Friday night is the Gala Dinner at Crowne Plaze Terrigal. Saturday is the Plenary sessions being held at the EV Event Centre (331 Terrigal Drive, Erina). Our District team have organised a great line up of guest speakers. Please check your diaries to see if you can join Rotarians from around our district for this wonderful conference. At this stage no-one from our club has registered and I suspect that is because we’ve been so busy with our projects we’re not yet focused on 2024 … but don’t miss out on these early bird rates. More details are available at the 2024 District Conference website: https://www.9685rotaryconference2024.com.au

SEE YOU AT OUR AGM TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER

Our AGM Tuesday 28 November is a requirement of club registration and a good opportunity for members to have their say about the coming year. Every volunteer organisation has predictable challenges and our club is no different, however whenever we have a project our members rise to meet the requirements and that is a hallmark of our membership body. The more members involved in our club organisation the more we flourish!

Welcome new Honorary Rotarian Michael Steel

Rotary Club of St Ives is delighted to welcome Michael Steel into our club as an Honorary Rotarian in recognition of the volunteer work he has down with our club members over recent years.

If the world could only stop to consider ...

Congratulations to our 2023 Pride of Workmanship Recipients

Pride of Workmanship Awards 2023 was an outstanding evening with four incredibly deserving recipients! Congratulations to Jemma, Jeffrey, Charlee and Mark ... your outstanding contributions are inspirational.

These apples are the BEST ever!

"Munch and crunch" ... advice is these are THE BEST APPLES EVER and who is going to argue with a teacher!

Wednesday 1 November baskets filled to the brim with delicious apples were delivered to: St Ives North Public School P&C Brigidine College St Ives St Ives Preparatory School (Sydney Grammar), Sir Eric Woodward School St Ives Park Public School St Ives Public School, St Ives High School, Masada College Masada College Junior School, Corpus Christi Catholic School, St Ives.

This is the seventh year Rotary Club of St Ives, NSW - District 9685 has delivered baskets of apples to the ten schools in St Ives in honour of World Teachers Day. Quotes from the accompanying letter to the Principal expressed the recognition we place on the role of schools in our community ... "We recognize quality education offers hope and the promise of a better standard of living for children, as well as providing support to families. There is no stronger foundation for lasting peace and sustainable development than educated citizens, supported through a quality educational system. We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of Woolworths St Ives, the fresh food people, in supporting this initiative recognising the value of teachers in our community." The baskets will be collected on Thursday so that we can do it again in 2024!

10 Baskets of Apples to 500 teachers in St Ives

It didn't take long to divide the apples into the ten baskets destined for delivery to the ten schools in St Ives on Wednesday 1 November!

Photos below show our Rotarians loading baskets into their cars before delivery to the schools.

Apples for Teacher - Celebrating World Teachers Day

Marietta's friendly smile welcomed us this morning when we collected Woolworths donation of apples for our "Annual Apples for Teachers" to celebrate World Teachers Day. Our sincere thanks to Woolworths St Ives Store Manager Steven, and their Fruit and Vegetables Manager Nitya for the deliciously crunchy applies.

Pride of Workmanship Awards Open

Our Vocational Director, George Papallo, advises that he has received nomination for four awardees and assures us that this year will be as impressive as last. Each year we continue to be impressed by the calibre of nominations received.

Brilliant teamwork at Bunnings BBQ

Our BBQ team did brilliantly Saturday this week! Coordinator Harold, sent through the following message:

“A big thank you to all those who have helped throughout the year on the Saturday BBQ’s at Bunnings. We were particularly challenged this week with minimum amount of helpers. We were extremely busy so there was no rest all day for Grahame, Marie, George, Russell, Matt, Greg B and Dee Stewart. Thanks also to Greg R and Michael Steel. Special mention to ever present stalwart John Steel.

Thank you to everyone who has worked on a Bunnings BBQ this year for helping to raise nearly $9,000! A large contribution to this significant amount is reflected in the steady supply of soft drinks donated by Russell’s neighbour. Not having to buy drinks has resulted in total nett profit for every drink sold. Thank you Russell for organising this important donation!!”

Oktoberfest Celebrations in support of ShelterBox

St Ives Rotary members joined the Oktoberfest 2023 celebrations at Kaiser Stub’n Terrey Hills last Friday. The evening was organised to raise funds for ShelterBox by Chatswood Roseville Club. We were welcomed by Roseville Chatswood Club Andre Harriman (Andre is sitting next to Vien in the photo) and his wife Lita. The evening was sensational and we were made very welcome.

SPRING RAFFLE WINNERS

The Spring Raffle is an example of what can happen when a small group of people work collaboratively on a project and see it through. Special thanks go to those members who made a donation of prizes to the raffle, to the members who purchased tickets and most especially to Russell Crofts and Milton Drever who drove the sales campaign.

The online draw occurred last Friday and all Spring Raffle winners were notified by email on 21 October. Russell advises $3,608 was raised from the sale of 1,097 tickets. To protect the identity of the prize-winners, only their initials and ticket numbers are listed.

It is a wonderful to announce the following raffle winners … we know they will be grinners!

BUY YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS 'NOW'!

Please support our Spring Raffle led by the St Ives Food and Wine Festival team. Russell advises that as of yesterday, Saturday, the raffle has raised $3,200. Help us to achieve our fundraising targets and assist the Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Centre and directly fund the various community and youth projects for our club. There are sensational prizes and remember “you have to be in it to win it”! The prizes are:

$1,400 Bundeena Cottage Getaway
$1,038 Kieser Pymble 3-month membership plus strength training program
$1,000 Harvey Norman Gift Card
$500 St Ives Village Gift Vouchers
$450 Nightingale Wines – Mixed dozen premium wines
$440 Pymble Golf Club - Round of Golf for 4 people plus two carts
$300 Fantasy Art Gift Voucher - Party face painting & balloon twisting package
$298 Kieser Pymble 90-minute personalised Golf assessment.
$250 Original Water Colour -“the Kookaburra” - donated by the artist.
$235 Elegance Oven Cleaning – Credit towards your next BBQ/Oven clean
$120 Terrey Hills Tavern - Meal & Drink vouchers

Having a little fun to lift the lid on Mental Health

It's a positive thing to know how to laugh at yourself, and that's exactly what we did on 'Lift the Lid' for Mental Health Day! Smiles all around as we enjoyed a little bit of fun knowing it's good for our wellbeing.

Reflections of St Ives Food and Wine Festival

Pictorial reflections of St Ives Food and Wine Festival

Wednesday 27 September 2023 Meeting

JUST ONE MORE SLEEP TILL ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

JUST NEEDING YOU TO COMPLETE THESE PICTURES!

The setup crew were all over St Ives Village Green this afternoon. The marquee, tables and chairs, stalls, portaloos, rubbish bins are all in place and everyone involved in planning St Ives Food and Wine Festival are having an early night so we're fresh and ready for an early start Sunday 17 September. The anticipation is high - IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY!

Talk to your dog about St Ives Food and Wine Festival Sunday 17 September

Excited about the Paw Parade being held at 12 Noon Sunday!

Time to go through your doggie's wardrobe and see

what they might want to wear!

Check out our website

www.stivesfoodandwine.com

Why are these dogs smiling?

These dogs are smiling because they know it’s only three weeks till the first ever PAW PARADE at St Ives Food and Wine Festival Sunday 17 September. The parade begins at 12 Noon on the beautiful St Ives Village Green. They’re getting ready with their smiles to impress the judges! Entry is free for dogs - another reason for smiling!

Are you coming? We hope so!

Support SES Trivia Night - Saturday 9 September

We have two Rotarians who are in SES and the partner of another Rotarian is an SES volunteer as well. SES Ku-ring-gai have a Trivia Night planned and YOU can help by organising family and friends to get a table together for a fun night ... there is also a Silent Auction! Speak to Greg or Murray if you would like to go on Saturday 9 September. If you can't go maybe consider giving the $15 donation - time to support our local SES - whatever would we do without them?!

Rotarians support the Clean Up St Ives initiative!

Sunday 13 August saw three Rotarians at the Clean Up Australia event at the St Ives Village Green arranged by St Ives Towards Sustainability group. Around 12 volunteers from the community collected over 30 Kg of rubbish.

Good to have Matt Cross MP, our visiting Rotarian Stephan, from Germany, and Greg Rappo helping our local community. Sadly a lot of McDonalds food containers, discarded sporting equipment and many hundreds of cigarette butts were collected. Photos left show how the litter is sorted into categories, items counted, and total weighed. It is quite confronting seeing so many unnecessary items of litter.

Greg Rappo, our Community Director, reported that it was encouraging to have many people stop to ask what we were doing and to thank us for making the effort on a Sunday morning to help Clean Up our local park. It is hoped more members will become involved in this initiative.

Another successful day at Bunnings Belrose BBQ

Saturday 12 August saw our Bunnings BBQ team again providing an excellent sausage sizzle, with many patrons making comment about the quality of our sausages! Thanks to everyone who volunteered on the day to make it such a success. Harold does an outstanding job of ordering and delivering the supplies for the BBQ and Russell continues to organise the donation of drinks for these events. John S is happy with the tap and go payments on the day and all volunteers enjoy the company of each other and serving the community. A date for your October diary is Saturday 28 for our next BBQ. Photo right shows some of the crew.

Support our team at Bunnings Belrose Saturday 12 August

Join us in "Clean Up St Ives" Sunday 13 August

We are supporting "Clean Up St Ives" organised by St Ives Towards Sustainability group. If you can help turn up at St Ives Skate Park at 9am Sunday 13 August.

You can help us promote St Ives Food and Wine Festival

It takes less than 5 minutes to help us! Thank you to those who have done so already, and please consider if you have not done it already. If you don't have a Facebook page that's ok. You can still help by sharing the link with family and friends who do and asking them to do the same.

Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1223360788368803/ and click on "Going" . Then share the above link and ask your friends and family to do the same. Everyone. who does this helps us spread the word through social media about this important event for us.

As of today we've had 97 responses in 24 hours since the Event was established. There are 13 Going and 84 are Interested. Let's see how these number change over the coming week!

SAVE THE DATE - SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2023

Another successful Bunnings BBQ Saturday 15 July 2023

You could not find happier people in Sydney than the crew from Rotary Club of St Ives, NSW - District 9685 who ran the Bunnings BBQ at Belrose on Saturday! Anyone lucky enough to get a sausage sizzle from them today would tell you they were the best snags in town! Huge thank you to all who were involved in making Saturday such a success!

Going to experience a taste of China for the night - Wednesday 19 July

We continue our virtual travels this Wednesday 19 July. This time our destination is Lotus Inn for a taste of cuisine from China. We’ll meet at the Lotus Inn, 41 Redleaf Avenue, Wahroonga at 6.30pm for 7.00pm for a Chinese banquet. Cost of the evening is $40pp and that includes corkage for BYO. You can purchase soft drinks, beers and coffee on the night at your own expense.Rotarian members could you please RSVP your yes or no by 6pm Monday 17 July to attend@stivesrotary.asn.au We can look forward to a scrumptious feast and heaps of fun! Anyone thinking of dressing up a bit?

Rotarians agree with this!

Check out our updated Facebook Page for 2023-2024

Last year we IMAGINED Rotary - this year we will CREATE HOPE IN THE WORLD

The Sa

1 July is the start of 2023-2024 Rotary Year

It's a great feeling giving the funds raised from Bobbo away!

Proceeds from the 2023 Bobbin Head Cycle Classic, affectionately known as "The Bobbo", were distributed to the nominated charities tonight, Thursday 22 June 2023. The funds we raise from Bobbin Head Cycle Classic go to support and carry out programs that benefit children and families in our community. The Bobbo is managed by the Rotary Clubs of Ku-ring-gai, St Ives, Wahroonga and Turramurra. The cheque presentations dinner was held at Magpies, Waitara and Harold Morgan and John Steel from Rotary Club of St Ives coordinated and hosted this event.

Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury is the event’s primary charity partner. 50% of all funds raised go to Lifeline H2H. The remaining 50% go to: KYDS Youth Development Service, Eagle Raps, The Cromehurst Foundation, Hornsby Connect, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women's Shelter, Bo Children's Hospital, Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Centre, and Mentoring Men.

The sponsors for this important community event are:

Time to celebrate!

Proud to announce St Ives Food and Wine Festival Platinum Sponsor is Alto Mitsubishi Pennant Hills

We are delighted to acknowledge our Platinum Sponsor is Alto Mitsubishi Pennant Hills at 336 Pennant Hills Road, Pennant Hills. If you would like to learn more about the exciting range of motor vehicles they have either visit or call them on 9056 8188. They are planning an exciting exhibition at our festival to showcase their latest range of vehicle.

Check out North Shore Mums article on St Ives Food and Wine Festival

North Shore Mums is one of our Media Partners for St Ives Food and Wine Festival. We are most grateful for their social media advertising sponsorship package. The first promotion of our event is ready and you can view it at: https://www.northshoremums.com.au/st-ives-food-wine-festival-2023/

Guest are always welcome at St Ives Rotary Club

Another successful day at Bunnings BBQ on Saturday with lots of additional people coming along to help us. Thanks to John Steel’s son Michael (photo - left) who is becoming a bit of a regular at rolling up his sleeves when we need help. Harold Morgan arrived with Jake (middle), a visiting relative from the UK who is staying with him. Former St Ives Rotarian, Dee Stewart (photo - right), has returned to live in Sydney from Bathurst and came along to her old club to lend her support.

Great to have extra helpers at BBQ

A great day at Bunnings BBQ

As always there were lots of laughs and collaboration as we worked our way through the peak demand periods. Bunnings BBQ’s are a wonderful way to show Rotary in Action. There’s a saying about “too many cooks in the kitchen” but in this case it’s not a problem as people take care of business and multi-task.

One member of the public went out of their way to let us know our sausages were the “best” ever – so congratulations to Harold for sourcing snags that actually have meat in the them and keep the community satisfied!

The BEST sausage in town SATURDAY 17 JUNE

Need extra storage - see Storage King Thornleigh!

If you have any storage needs be sure to see the Manager Paul Johnston at Storage King Thornleigh. Phone: 9436 6495 or Email: thornleigh@storageking.com.au
Check out their website: storageking.com.au

5 JUNE IS WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

The theme for World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution. The world is being inundated by plastic! More than 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced every year, half of which is designed to be used only once.

World Environment Day presents an opportunity for individuals and communities across the globe to reflect on the importance of preserving and protecting our planet. This annual event focuses on raising awareness about environmental issues ranging from deforestation to pollution. As a day designated by the United Nations, World Environment Day promotes the need for everyone to come together, making small yet significant changes to mitigate the impacts of the ever-growing ecological concerns.

World Environment Day started in 1972 with the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. In Australia, with its unique and diverse flora and fauna, World Environment Day holds special significance. The Great Barrier Reef, being the world's largest coral reef system.

In Australia, World Environment Day is typically celebrated through various activities such as tree-planting events, educational workshops, and awareness campaigns. Schools and local councils organise environmentally-focused initiatives that engage the whole community, from children to adults. These events provide practical and tangible steps for individuals to improve their environmental footprint and contribute to the overall health of our planet. This year's World Environment Day will be marked with the theme #BeatPlasticPollution to refocus attention on solutions to plastic pollution.

As individuals we can easily take action by:

reducing plastic use, especially do not use disposable single-sue plastic items
Recycle all plastic items
Participate in a cleaning-up your local area as we have done with another community group.

The RI Convention is over but its influence continues

The Rotary International Convention in Melbourne is over, but the many connections and conversations held during the week will continue to inspire!

See your copy of The Waratah for the link to the important speech by RI President Jennifer Jones.

Link:

https://my.rotary.org/en/exchange-ideas/events/convention- images-videos-2023?types=audiovideo

Kiosk upgrade at Showground

In 1979 Rotary Club of St Ives completed a Kiosk at St Ives Showground for use by community groups. For many years it was the hub for our annual major fundraiser the St Ives Fireworks Display on the Queen's Birthday weekend. Last year the Council won a grant from state government to upgrade the facility inside. It is now being used by a commercial group to provide coffee, and other beverages and snacks, for visitors to the Showgrounds. Another part of the history of the Rotary Club of St Ives, NSW - District 9685

Wisdom

It's all happening in Melbourne this week!

Rotary International Melbourne Convention 2023

Have you seen the 2022 Youtube of St Ives Food and Wine Festival?

For those who did not get to view this video link when it was shared last week, here it is again.Remember viewing helps Facebook promote the event!

Please view this video and help us increase the numbers who have viewed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX4i9lJwCg0

Meeting Wednesday 24 May 2023

We’re meeting at Turramurra Bowling Club this Wednesday 24 May at 6.15pm. It is always a relaxed venue and the food is reasonably priced and very enjoyable. Please remember to assist by sending your RSVP to: attend@stivesrotary.asn.au For your information Turramurra Bowling Club is preferred to be known and referred to as “Club Turramurra - your local club”.

Proud of two Rotarians who are also SES

We are proud to acknowledge two of our Rotarians who also wear the uniform of SES and have made very impressive contributions over several decades.

Thank you for your service Murray Lennon OAM and Greg Rappo!

Greg was also seen at St Ives Fair this past weekend, along with Rotarian and Councillor Christine Kay.

Good people out and about working for and with our community!

Something to think about ...

Sponsorship Opportunity

The Rotary Club of St Ives organises the St Ives Food and Wine Festival each year and welcomes the opportunity to work with companies who would like to participate as a sponsor in this important community event to the North Shore. The 2023 event will be held on Sunday 17 September on the beautiful St Ives Village Green. Please contact our Sponsorship Coordinator, Russell Crofts if you would like more information.

E: russcrof@gmail.com

P: 0419 205 593

Gourmet BBQ this Wednesday 17 May!

We enjoyed a great night in Italy last week!

It would be easy to believe we actually dined in Italy looking at our “happy snaps” from last Wednesday 10 May! The ambiance at Farina Pizza is as authentic as the food. It was especially good to see Daryl and Brian’s son Justin join us to celebrate his Mum’s birthday ... we hope you had an extra happy birthday Daryl as we were delighted to share the evening with you on your special day. Thanks for the fun facts sheet Di. It was amazing how much our well-travelled tour group knew already, and how many more bits of trivia individuals had to offer to the list! It certainly is adding a new dimension of fun to go overseas for one night a month – especially given we are all such good collegial travelling companions!

Words of Wisdom

New Manager at Storage King Thornleigh

If you have any storage needs be sure to the see the Manager Paul Johnston at Storage King Thornleigh

Phone: 9436 6495 Email: thornleigh@storageking.com.au

Check out their website: storageking.com.au

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We're overseas for the night to Italy

Wise Words

See you this week for breakfast?

Lest We Forget

ANZAC Day 25 April 2023

Check your emails for latest edition of The Waratah

Helen and Murray Lennon are looking good

Di and Barry Barnes visited Helen and Murray Lennon up the coast a couple of weeks ago. Pleased to report their new home is fabulous and they both look well ... especially good to see Murray on his feet again!

Food for Thought

Best Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings Belrose Saturday 15 April

Don't miss our Bunnings BBQ Sausage Saturday 15 April.

Funds raised support Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Centre.

What a great team of Rotarians

A Taste of Thailand

It felt like we went overseas for the night this week when we enjoyed a delicious meal at Charmed by Hanuman Thai at Gordon!

Every dish was a taste of authentic Thai, absolutely delicious ... and served with the biggest smiles.

"Khob Khun" to the wonderful team who looked after us!

Join a dynamic group this Sunday morning!

This Sunday 15 April at 9.00am-11am a wonderful group of enthusiastic local residents are meeting to Clean up the Village Green.

Why not join them and make a positive difference to our local community. Bring your gloves and everything else is provided.

All welcome!

Join us for breakfast this week ...

Storage King Thornleigh

Something to think about ...

Posted by Di Barnes

This week ... Wednesday 29 March 2023

Know any outstanding Food, Wine or Lifestyle Stallholders?

If you have details of a fabulous Food, Wine or Lifestyle stallholder you'd like to see at St Ives Food and Wine Festival on 17 September 2023 please let us know. In mid-April we are inviting stallholders to join us in September and are looking for outstanding vendors join us for what will be our best festival ever!

Words of Wisdom

We're going to Fernbank and then off overseas to Goa in India

Bobbo Briefing this week

We’re meeting for dinner and the BOBBO briefing on Wednesday 15 March at Turramurra Club 181 Bobbin Head Road, North Turramurra.

After dinner at 7.00pm Paul Rickard will present the important informative BOBBO briefing. Everyone who has any involvement in the BOBBO event please make every effort to attend this meeting. Information and the necessaries will be given and handed out to participants and support volunteers.

Some may wish to come for the Briefing only.

Please make that clear in your RSVP reply.

To assist with seating arrangements please RSVP whether you will attend or not via by 6pm Monday 13^th at latest. attend@stivesrotary.asn.au

See you this week

Words of Wisdom

Somehow it doesn't seem like work when you do things with mates!

Thank you to everyone involved in the work done for the BOBBO coming up on Sunday 26 March. Harold leads the way in organising the mailouts and bag-stuffing teams.

This week special mention goes to Rosie, George, Cathie, Trish, Grahame and of course Harold for the marathon effort in getting the marshal bags completed.. As always John S is there behind the scenes and lending a hand where needed. Tim and Derek are also heavily engaged at this point in time and we’ll be hearing more from them closer to the date. John W is still keen to hear from anyone who has more marshal volunteers. A sincere vote of thanks everyone!

See you this Wednesday 8 March 2023

Be the change!

Sunday 5 March 2023

Wise Words ....

Check your emails for your copy of The Waratah - 22 February 2023

Looking forward to another great week at the Rotary Club of St Ives

We need your help!

Bobbin Head Cycle Classic is fast approaching and we NEED YOUR HELP for a couple of hours on Sunday morning 26 MARCH 2023.

Contact John Waterhouse if you are able to volunteer and help us raise funds for Lifeline and other charities.

Join us Sunday 5 March

Make your booking for this event NOW!

We are looking forward to seeing all members at this event - and hopefully some Friends of Rotary as well.

Celebrating Australia 2023

Rotarians from the Rotary Club of St Ives met Australia Day Eve for a fabulous evening of Celebration of our nation and friendship.

Happy Lunar New Year

Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Philippines and South Korea celebrate the Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is becoming a more correct reference than Chinese New Year. This greeting means we include all countries who celebrate this important event. Why not consider what you will do to celebrate this important event? Special Vietnamese Happy New Year to Rotarian Vien who is celebrating Year of the Cat! Happy Lunar New Year to Joanne from Hong Kong and Happy Philippines Lunar New Year to Yvonne. Somewhere in history the Year of the Rabbit became Year of the Cat in Vietnam. There are a few theories as towny different animals are celebrated - learn more about that in The Waratah this week or visit: https://www.voanews.com/a/why-vietnam-is-celebrating-the-year-of-the-cat-not-the-rabbit/6928201.html

We're celebrating Australia Day

Our first get together in 2023

IMAGINE is the 2022-2023 Rotary theme

Thinking about our goal to Grow Rotary in 2023

Rotarians are people of action - this is what is needed to achieve our goals in 2023.

January is Vocational Service Month and Rotarians reflect on how they use their profession to support Rotary

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

1,225 gifts delivered to nursing homes

It is such a joy to deliver the gifts to the ring home

Delivery of The Tree of Joy Gifts to Nursing Homes

Thursday 22 December 2022 was delivery day for the 1,225 gifts going to nursing homes on the North Shore thanks to the generosity of our wonderful community who support the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy. The spirit of Christmas is alive and well.

Last Minute Gift Returns

The Tree of Joy proves the Spirit of Christmas is alive and well in our community

Time to celebrate Christmas and the 2022 Year

Pleased to confirm our 2023 date for St Ives Food and Wine Festival - Save the Date

Positive thinking

Time to Celebrate

Time to celebrate Christmas - remember your RSVP is needed by 9 December

Remembering Foundation Member of the Rotary Club of St Ives - OAM Wal Edwards

Last Friday was an extra special day for the Edwards family. Wal Edwards would have been humbled by all the attention and pomp surrounding the recognition given to his contribution to returned service men. Wal was a much loved and respected member of our club.

Wallace Frederick Edwards (Wal) was born in 1916, living in Manly during his formative years. He served with the Australian Army from 1942 – 1946. During his lifetime he tried his hand at many ventures and enjoyed a successful business life. He was a Foundation member of the Rotary Club of St Ives and a member there for 55 years. In 2015 he received the Order of Australia (OAM) for his charity work and for the last 26 years of his life dedicated himself as the Welfare Officer for Harbord Diggers RSL, visiting hundreds of people suffering and dying. He was also the Pastoral Partner of St Matthews Church Manly and held a car licence until he was 103. Wal’s credo, until his very last days, was “SERVICE ABOVE SELF”. Wal Edwards died on the 25 July 2021, aged 104.

The following words have been written by his daughter Jennifer …

“My brother Ian and I were given the great honour yesterday (11 November 2022) of being invited to the unveiling of our Dad’s Footpath Plaque in Soldiers Avenue Freshwater, then on to the Wall of Remembrance Re-dedication at Jacka Park in Freshwater to place another plaque on the wall.

The day was hosted by the Harbord RSL Sub-Branch and attended by Sean Rout, President of Harbord Diggers RSL sub-Branch James Griffin, member of the NSW Cabinet and serves as the NSW Environment Minister and NSW Heritage Minister,

Michael Regan, Mayor of Northern Beaches Council, Ms Zali Steggall OAM, MP, Member for Warringah.

Ian and I felt very proud to be the children of this remarkable man who did so much for veterans and the community, and we wish to thank Harbord Diggers Club, Pam Hanson and many others who worked so hard to make this day such a success.”

Smiles all around when Apples for Teachers are delivered to ten schools in St Ives

Teachers and support staff in ten St Ives Schools had a great start to the week when baskets of apples were delivered to their school Monday morning 7 November. The schools receiving apples were: St Ives North Public School, Sydney Grammar, Brigidine College, Sir Eric Woodward, St Ives Park Public School, Corpus Christi Primary School, Masada Junior School, Masada College, St Ives Public School and St Ives High School.

This is the sixth year the Rotary Club of St Ives has been delivering apples to teachers. It started to coincide with World Teachers Day and has been a highlight appreciated by the 550 teachers and staff working in those schools. Quotes from the accompanying letter to the Principal expressed the recognition we place on the role of schools in our community ... "quality education offers hope and promise of a better standard of living for children, as well as providing support to families. There is no stronger foundation for lasting peace and sustainable development than educated citizens, supported through a quality education system. Please accept the accompanying basket of apples for your staff as a token thank you for the positive impact they have on the lives of your students, and the contribution they make in supporting a strong Australian society in the future. We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of Woolworths St Ives, the fresh food people, in supporting this initiative and recognising the value of teachers in our community. From the members of the Rotary Club of St Ives."

The baskets will be collected on Wednesday so that we can do it again in 2023!

Baskets ready for delivery to ten St Ives schools

This is what 550 apples look like when they are packaged up into cane baskets with red ribbons and a gift card. Ready for delivery Monday morning 7 November to ten schools in St Ives. Thanks to Woolworths St Ives for supporting the Rotary Club of St Ives Apples for Teachers initiative. Woolworths St Ives truly are the Fresh Food People.

Woolworths St Ives support Rotary Club of St Ives Apples for Teachers

Thank you Woolworths St Ives for your support of the Rotary Club of St Ives Apples for Teachers initiative. The Pink Lady and green apples you supplied are so fresh, delicious and crunchy. … you really are The Fresh Food People! Store Manager Alex and Team Member Faheem even helped up load up the car with boxes of apples!

Invitation to Diabetes Alive Thank You Night 26 November 2022

Coming to Breakfast this Wednesday 2 November 2022?

2022 Spring Raffle Winners

St Ives Rotary Spring Raffle 2022 was drawn 21 Oct 2022 by RaffleLink. Raffle Winners have been contacted by Email 22/10/2022 (mobile phone as a back-up).

Our thanks to everyone who supported this raffle and congratulations to the following winners:

1st PRIZE WINNER - AW - Ticket Number: #749

2nd PRIZE WINNER - CS - Ticket Number: #1121

3rd PRIZE WINNER - G Ra - Ticket Number: #805

4th PRIZE WINNER - G Ri - Ticket Number: #788

5th PRIZE WINNER - CB - Ticket Number: #262

6th PRIZE WINNER - MA - Ticket Number: #682

7th PRIZE WINNER - RS - Ticket Number: #914

8th PRIZE WINNER - HB - Ticket Number: #179

9th PRIZE WINNER - MB - Ticket Number: #172

10th PRIZE WINNER - A-M P - Ticket Number: #715

Something to consider ...

Joining the Rotary Club of St Ives is a positive step in the right direction to enriching your life.

Be in touch and we can let you know why that is so!

What a fabulous trivia night and fund raiser for Moree East Public School Books in Homes Program

Winners are certainly "grinners" and especially when they get called up multiple times for prizes! Well done Brian and Russell. Lots of fun at Trivia Night hosted by Rotary Clubs of Turramurra, Chatswood/Roseville. Congratulations and thanks from the Rotarians from the Rotary Club of St Ives. And winning the trophy for the "horses end" made us all smile:)

10 October is Lift the Lid on Mental Health Day

10 October is Lift the Lid on Mental Health Day, an initiative of Australian Rotary Health and a way to increase funding for this worthwhile and increasingly important health issue in our community. It was established in 1981, Australian Rotary Health has contributed more than $33 million towards health research projects in areas such as Alzheimer’s, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and spinal injury.

Australian Rotary Health is a national, not-for-profit organisation which funds health research and provides community education about health in Australia. The organisation supports work on a broad range of health problems, but specialises in mental health. It is supported by Australian Rotary Clubs.

Support our online Spring Raffle

Support the Rotary Club of St Ives, NSW - District 9685 Spring Faffle fundraising efforts. This is an online raffle and will be drawn by RaffleLink on the 21st of October 2022 at 9AM. Winners will be contacted by phone or email immediately after the draw. Support us by buying tickets online at: https://rafflelink.com.au/stivesrc2022

We are at present specifically supporting the Ku-Ring-Gai Neighbourhood Centre (KNC), The Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women's Shelter (HKWS) and our regular, ongoing Rotary projects.

Good when we share the same values

It could not have been a more brilliant day Sunday 25 September

It was wet wether leading up to St Ives Food and Wine Festival with a forecast of thunderstorms heading into the weekend ... however ... Sunday 25 September was a blue sky, sunshine day and just perfect!

2022 Bobbo was a perfect day!

The weather could not have been more perfect. Our Rotarians, their families and volunteers could not have done a better job. According to our Bobbo coordinator Harold Morgan "Many, many thanks to you all, it was one of the best run and joyful runnings of the BOBBO"! Congratulations one and all ... a credit to everyone involved.

The riders .....

The street Marshalls .....

The VIP Tent Catering Team

The Morgan Family BBQ Kings and Queens .....

The Rotarian family who wore different hats throughout the day .....

Everyone can rest on your 2022 BOBBO laurels and then prepare for next running March 27^th 2023.

This was a magnificent example of ROTARY IN ACTION!

Our fabulous sponsors!

RAFFLE TICKETS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ONLINE

2022 Spring Raffle OPEN for ticket sales!

BUY Raffle Tickets at St Ives Food and Wine Festival Sunday 25 September

or online NOW at: https://rafflelink.com.au/stivesrc2022

or use the QR code below right

Funds raised support Rotary Club of St Ives programs and charities.

Share the good news with family and friends

Advice from one who knows ...

A fun time ahead at St Ives Food and Wine Festival

Bring your smiles and be ready for some fun at St Ives Food and Wine Festival Sunday 25 September on the beautiful St Ives Village Green. Be sure to bring your family and friends along to the Photo Booth where you can capture some memorable photos - with prizes to sweeten your day being awarded every half hour - you have to be in it to win it!

A good thought ...

Something to contemplate

Join us for Breakfast

Words of Wisdom

You are invited to join us Wednesday 31 August 2022

Timely reminder during Membership Month

Do you know someone who might want to try something new in their life, but they don't know what it is? Why not invite them to come along to one of our Rotary meetings!

We're having an Italian Banquet this coming Wednesday 17 August!

We are looking forward to an enjoyable social dinner this coming Wednesday - be sure to RSVP and make your direct deposit into the Club account ... see details below:

St Ives Food and Wine Festival promotion by Media Partner Triple H 100.1 FM

So thrilled to have Triple H 100.1FM as one of our media partners for the St Ives Food and Wine Festival.

Tune in to Triple H 100.1FM for the hottest hits, to country, jazz, rock, and blues, Australian music and more. Triple H 100.1FM also serves up a smorgasbord of quality multi-language programs and music. Stream us online at www.triplehfm.com.au or download the free Community Radio Plus app and takeTriple H 100.1 FM with you anywhere.

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Submit Your Community Event - Triple H 100.1 FM

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Wednesday 10 August 2022 we welcome PDG Bruce Lakin to a Zoom meeting

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PDG Bruce Lakin will be addressing us about the proposed changes to the Rotary Regionalisation Structure at a Zoom meeting at 6:30pm next Wednesday. If you would like to join us please RSVP: attend@stivesrotary.asn.au

The BBQ Team were at Bunnings Pymble Saturday 6 August

Saturday the Bunnings Pymble BBQ was a great success despite it being our first time at this new location. Trade was perhaps not as busy as we are used to but enough to keep all our volunteers busy! Special thanks go to Tim England, who again proves he is extraordinary on the BBQ tongs and worked tirelessly all day! Harold Morgan and John Steel make it all happen so seamlessly because of the amount of organisation coordination they do before and after. To all members who assisted throughout Saturday …. “we couldn’t do it without you!” Thanks to Trish for sending the photo through for inclusion in The Waratah. With mobile phones having such great camera facilities, please remember to grab yours next time, and help us keep a photographic record of our time together.

Are you joining us for breakfast this Wednesday 3 August 2022?

RSVP to: attend@stivesrotary.asn.au by Monday 5pm.

TIME TO SHARE THE DATE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

A valuable insight into our Air Force

Start thinking about who YOU can ask to help - we need volunteers

A sensational social evening - focusing our commitment!

Rotary is all about relationships ... coming together is a beginning ... staying together is a commitment ... and working together to progress our ideas to help others is success!"

Today is a day for a good day

The Waratah 6 July 2022 is on it's way to you!

Wisdom for the week

Remember to book in for our Changeover Dinner

Social evening this coming Wednesday 22 June at Terrey Hills Tavern

Could be a challenge to make a selection from the extensive menu on offer at Terrey Hills Tavern when we meet there this week!

Why not take a quick look at the menu choices to whet your appetite!

https://www.terreyhillstavern.com.au/menus

Join our zoom meeting this week to learn more about Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Centre from their CEO Michelle Bell

Happiness ...

June is Rotary Fellowships Month

There is so much more to Rotary than guest speakers, dinners, sausage sizzles and community projects ...

An eggscellent breakfast at JJ's Cafe

Breakfast is a great way to start the day - especially at JJ's Cafe! Fabulous new decor and the same delicious standard of food - delighted!

Didn't solve any of the world's problems, but certainly enjoyed the company ... and the laughter when Milton "poached" Di's eggs, as so eloquently

put by Bruce! Thank you JJ's for quickly "laying out" some new eggs ... it really "saved Milton's bacon" ... eggscellent!

Words of Wisdom

1 June is Say Something Nice Day

As a child we all would have heard the saying from our parents and elders, “If you cannot say something nice, then say nothing at all”. There is a lot of wisdom in that saying and hopefully there is a shared value in the sentiment. Putting the philosophy into action can sometimes be challenging.

Having a day to focus on “Say Something Nice” reminds us of the power of our words … to positively or negatively influence others.

What if around the globe, people today make a concerted effort to speak words that are designed to “make someone’s day” … to have a positive influence?

Social media can be used for good … but it sadly is also used to intimate and have negative influences on others. Let’s make today the day that we all use our social media to say something nice to people we know. A compliment is hollow unless the sentiment is sincere. Truth is there are benefits for the giver and the receiver. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to reflect on those we know and to communicate a positive compliment.

Words are powerful … and as the saying goes “a drop of ink can make millions think”. Start the ripple effect today by ”saying something nice to one person” … and keep adding people to your list until you are satisfied that you have created a positive ripple effect …. you will never know where what you started will end.

See you at breakfast next Wednesday 1 June

Words of Wisdom

We regret to advise the event this Wednesday needs to be post

Looking forward to our Wednesday 25 May Zoom Meeting this week

Meet Joshua Ross co-founder of Humanitix

Joshua Ross is a young man who grew up in St Ives. He is also the co-founder of Humanitix, a not-for-profit organisation notable for operating an event ticketing platform to raise funds for education projects. He is an outstanding example of a clever person who has used innovation and technology to create something unique ... it not only raises money but is a platform to support significant regular donations to charitable organisations.

Photos below show Rotarian Matt Cross (left) leading the Q and A session with Josh Ross (right). Clearly these two young men have much in common. They enjoyed a warm banter and Matt was able to facilitate Josh telling his impressive story in a relaxed and informal way.

Another great night at the Rotary Club of St Ives celebration of Science and Innovation!

Annual Science and Innovation Night

Our Annual Science and Innovation Night Wednesday 18 May was a wonderful night! Our student candidate, Jennifer Riley highlighted her time at National Youth Science Forum and said "it changed my life". Obviously an outstanding experience ... and a great investment in the future!

Well Done Jennifer - your presentation was "awesome"!

Something to think about this week

What's on at Rotary Club of St Ives this Wednesday 18 May 2022

Be sure to sign up for our inspiring meeting next Wednesday 18 May

Words of Wisdom

Happy Mother's Day

You are invited to join us for dinner Wednesday 18 May

You're invited to our Zoom Meeting this Wednesday 11 May 2022

We're meeting for Breakfast this Wednesday 4 May 2022

BBQ Team Successful at Belrose Bunnings this week!

Pleased to report that all the sausages were cooked to perfection and gratefully appreciated by our loyal Bunnings customers. Tick! Another successful Bunnings Rotary BBQ!

Anzac Day 25 April 2022

President Lyndall Pearson laid a wreath at the St Ives Cenotaph this morning on behalf of the Rotary Club of St Ives.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

We will remember them.

Lest we forget."

Check your emails for your copy of The Waratah - 27 April 2022 to find out what's happening this week at the Rotary Club of St Ives

Rotary Club of St Ives supporting Ku-ring-gai Council's Free Skate Jam Saturday 23 April 2022

Fabulous community support from the Rotary Club of St Ives with a great sausage sizzle BBQ for the first FREE Skate Jam!

Looking forward to our dinner meeting this Wednesday 20 April 2022

You are invited to learn all about Australian Rotary Health this week

Check your emails for a copy of The Waratah for this week

Save the Date - 20 April to meet Catia Davim

Catia Davim is Founder, Social Good Summit Australia, Partner, KPMG Australia and will speak about "The 2030 Agenda: what type of world do you want to Iive in?" Members can book through Treasurer directly and Friends of Rotary can book tickets online through Humanitix at the link below:

https://events.humanitix.com/the-2030-agenda-what-type-of-world-do-you-want-to-live-in?_ga=2.87426715.2086236631.1649060336-1595095642.1644550297

Are you coming to breakfast this week? Remember to let Rosemary know.

DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS THIS WEEKEND

Breakfast next week - Wednesday 6 April 2022

Rotary Club of St Ives celebrating 57 years today!

Our Wednesday meeting this week is now by ZOOM ... be sure to RSVP to receive the link

Turn your lights off for an hour Saturday 26 March at 8.30pm

The Bobbo POSTPONED till SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2022

We regret to advise you that the 2022 Bobbin Head Cycle Classic has been postponed to Sunday 18 September.

With up to 30 mm of rain forecast for Sunday, and the very poor pavement conditions, we feel it would be unsafe to conduct the event. In reaching this decision, we have taken advice from the NSW Police and Transport for NSW. The personal safety of riders, volunteers and spectators remains our number one priority.

THANK YOU for your amazing support of this important community fundraiser, and we look forward to seeing you at the rescheduled Bobbo on Sunday 18 September.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact your team leaders; their phone number is on your briefing document. If you are happy to assist in September, please hang on to any bags or equipment.

If you are unable to help on 18 Sept, please return these items to your Rotary Club or arrange collection with your Team Leader.

We will be in touch again soon with further information; updates will also be posted on the website here.

Stay safe and dry,

The Bobbo Organising Committee

Do you still have questions about Covid virus? Join us Wednesday 30 March ..

This week's meeting - Wednesday 16 March 2022

International Women's Day 8 March

The Waratah - 9 March 2022 has been emailed to Rotarians and Friends of Rotary Club of St Ives

We Salute our SES Volunteers and other emergency service agencies assisting during the current floods

We salute our volunteers ... especially our Rotarian friends Greg and Murray!

POSTPONED - NEW DATE TO BE ADVISED

Our Clean Up Australia event at St Ives Showground tomorrow (Sunday 6 March) has been postponed due to the ongoing bad weather and soggy conditions at the site. We will advise when a new date is set for the event.

Rotary theme for March is Water and Sanitation Month

Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education are basic necessities for a healthy environment and a productive life. When people have access to clean water and sanitation, waterborne diseases decrease, children stay healthier and attend school more regularly, and mothers can spend less time carrying water and more time helping their families. HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN: Through water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs, Rotary’s people of action mobilize resources, form partnerships, and invest in infrastructure and training that yield long-term change. Want to know more? Check out the website for inspiring stories about how Rotarians make this happen: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/providing-clean-water

SUNDAY 6 MARCH IS CLEAN UP Australia Day

Have you let Greg Rappo know that you'll be coming this Sunday? To help with planning please let Greg know if you and your family will be there. The Environment is a major focus area for Rotary International. Sunday we're not only cleaning up a little corner of our environment, but raising community awareness that what we do matters. Working together we can and do make a real and positive difference.

SEE YOU AT BREAKFAST THIS WEDNESDAY?

Don't forget to let Rosemary know if you are coming to breakfast this Wednesday.

Note change in time to 8.00am.

What a fabulous way to start the day!

This week

The Waratah was sent to members Sunday evening ... it's a BIG week coming up ... it's a BIG month ahead ...

The Rotary theme for February is Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention

Rotarians Clean Up Australia Day - Sunday 6 March

St Ives Rotarians will be involved in a very worthwhile, easy and fun activity in a great outdoor environment on Sunday 6 March - Clean Up Australia Day!

SAVE THE DATE: WEDNESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2022

You will not want to miss this event! Shane Fitzsimmons is well known to us all for his past leadership roles and ability to unite people during a time a crisis. His new role as Commissioner Resilience NSW is one where his skills will be well utilised and we certainly are in need of someone with such wisdom and vision. Save the date and be sure you don't miss out on this outstanding evening of inspiration.

Check your email for first copy of The Waratah for 2022

The Waratah - 19 January 2022 has been sent by email to members and Friends of Rotary with details of our first meeting for this year ... and lots more!

January is Rotary Vocational Service Month

Seasons Greetings from the Rotary Club of St Ives

Rotary Club of St Ives members will be taking a well-earned break over the Christmas/New Year period and look forward to seeing everyone in January for our Breakfast meeting.

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS - CONGRATULATIONS TO ONLINE CHRISTMAS RAFFLE WINNERS

Thank you to everyone who supported the 2021 St Ives Christmas Raffle. You are fantastic!

We have raised nearly $2,600 from 837 tickets sold, which will go towards some of the many projects we would like to support.

The Raffle closed at midnight 23rd December and was drawn by RaffleLink at 8AM 24^th December 2021. Just like Lotto, all done automatically!

Russell will phone winners today ... giving them the news of a bonus Christmas present coming their way. Special thanks to everyone who supported this initiative of Russell's and most especially to our generous sponsors!

Delivery Day for 2021 Tree of Joy gifts

Watch "A Current Affair" Thursday 23 December 7pm showcasing Rotary Club of St Ives "Tree of Joy"

Watch "A Current Affair" channel 9 at 7.00pm tomorrow (Thursday 23 December) featuring the Rotary Club of St Ives "Tree of Joy". A story to warm your heart and leave you feeling the spirit of Christmas is alive and well in Australia ... and especially in the Ku-ring-gai community. Showcasing how Rotary Club of St Ives engage their community to support residents in aged care facilities and nursing homes. We all need a "good news story" and this is it! HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who supported the Tree of Joy ... hope this story inspires you to make it an annual tradition in your family.

What an amazing community we live in

The final countdown

Have you purchased your online Raffle Ticket - so easy - follow the link!

Rotary Club of St Ives didn't get to hold St Ives Food and Wine Festival this year, but we have launched an online raffle with fabulous prizes! Check out the website and see how easy it is to support our Youth and Community Programs - and be in the run to win some prizes! THANK YOU for supporting us through these challenging times of not being able to hold our usual fundraising events.

FABULOUS PRIZES TO BE WON:

1st prize Harvey Norman Gift Voucher $1,000

2nd Prize Kieser Pymble 3 month unlimited visites Valued $712

3rd Prize Round of gold for 4 at Pymble Golf Club Valued $620

4th Prize Bunnings Gift Vouchers Valued $500

5th Prize 12 bottles Nightingale Estate Wines Valued $360

6th Prize Oven/BBQ Clean by Elegance Oven Cleaning Valued $199

https://rafflelink.com.au/stivesrc2021

We're celebrating Christmas, friendship and fabulous year!

Rotary Core Values

Have you bought your tickets yet?

FABULOUS PRIZES TO BE WON:

1st prize Harvey Norman Gift Voucher $1,000

2nd Prize Kieser Pymble 3 month unlimited visites Valued $712

3rd Prize Round of gold for 4 at Pymble Golf Club Valued $620

4th Prize Bunnings Gift Vouchers Valued $500

5th Prize 12 bottles Nightingale Estate Wines Valued $360

6th Prize Oven/BBQ Clean by Elegance Oven Clearning Valued $199

https://rafflelink.com.au/stivesrc2021

VALE Rotarian John Willis

A celebration of John's life will be held in the Camellia Chapel at Macquarie Park Crematorium Friday 3 December 2021 at 12.30pm - streaming details and facility to leave a comment for the family are available on the Albert and Meyer website (and click on Service Venues tab) at this link: https://www.albertmeyer.com.au/live-streaming/

Time to RSVP for our Christmas Party

Buy your tickets now for our Christmas Raffle

So easy to get your tickets! Just click on the link below, select the number of tickets you want to buy and pay for then on the secure website.

https://rafflelink.com.au/stivesrc2021

Help us spread the word about the 2021 Tree of Joy

What makes you optimistic?

Another successful Bunnings BBQ

Our Bunnings BBQ on Saturday was held in extremely blustery conditions burt that didn’t stop Harold, John S and Russell from settingup and unpacking the boxes of fsausages, bread, sauces and drinks necessary for a fabulous day! We are especially grateful to Nathan Gardner of Coca Cola Amatil for arranging a donatin of Coke brand soft drinks!

The morning session was quiet, but by the 11am shift things were starting to get busier and there was a steady stream of happy customers all afternoon … while packing up we had a small number who were happy to have a snag with crust as we’d run out of bread!

Especially happy to meet Trish who will be joining our club in the near future – so good having you help us out for the first time! Delighted to report the income for the day was $1,300 for our programs At the end of the day special thanks go to Harold who organised the BBQ and packed his car to capacity taking everything back home for washing and storing away till next time. What a team effort!

Our thanks also go to the many hundreds of customers who supported our BBQ efforts and welcomed us back with enthusiasm. It is clear the Bunnings BBQ culture is something our community values. Rotary Club of St Ives certainly values and appreciates the opportunity afforded by Bunnings Belrose to share fellowship and having the opportunity to raise funds for our many youth and community projects.

Donation to Northern Beaches Community Cancer Care Wig Library

Thanks to The Sydney Observer for publishing this article for us in their November edition.

Breakfast with friends - a great way to start the day!

We did it!

Invitation to join us Tuesday 16 November

Would you like to join us for this event on Tuesday 16 November? o register for the dinner, please RSVP to Rosemary at r.coucouvinis@gmail.com (also noting any dietary requirements) and make a $55 deposit to the St Ives Rotary Club account:

Rotary Club of St Ives - Bendigo Bank details

BSB: 633 000

Account: 161 181 334

If you attend the dinner, the venue will only accept fully vaccinated attendees. Please have your digital vaccination certificate to show on the night.

If you would like to join us y Zoom (no cost) visit to register for zoom link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iwxg58udlXMRYbkIcRVc4WR6gsjIYiKXj7fDODnIu3o/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbclid=IwAR1Hzffw4RE-zGu3WTeaKMdr61chPXx4mfbC1RLbiwERaiKe680dOds0l5Q

Enquiries: Matt Cross matt_t_cross@hotmail.com

We've almost reached our goal

Australian of the Year - Dr James Muecke AM - Harness your passion to change the world

We're reached 60% towards our goal

20 October - Professor Tom Smith - Cashless Society

We're EXCITED to be back at Bunnings BBQ Sunday 17 October

The BBQ team is so looking forward to this coning Sunday at our Bunnings BBQ - look forward to seeing you there!

Make an 2 for 1 impact on your donation

THIS WEDNESDAY

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr James Muecke is not able to join us on Wednesday evening. We will announce a new date shortly.

At short notice, Senator Andrew Bragg has agreed to join us to discuss his work in the Senate on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre."

Be sure to RSVP online - you won't want to miss this night!

Invite a friend to come along to our next Zoom meetings

You are invited to our Zoom Meeting this Wednesday 22 September 2021

Wonderful meeting this week

You are invited

August is Membership Month and our Rotarians are speaking out

Community Kindness and Generosity Award to JazzdUp Cupcakes

Owner of Jazz'd Up Cupcakes, Jasmine Faul is a 22 year old St Ives lady who had hopes of opening her own business this year until COVID prevented that becoming a reality. Her grit and determination to continue pursuing her dream continues, not immediately, but in the future. Recently she delivered her amazing cupcakes to the Gordon Police Station as her way of honouring the work they are doing for our community at this difficult time. The Rotary Club of St Ives acknowledges the kindness and generosity displayed by Jasmine. She was shocked and sincerely humbled to have received advice of this award and she is clearly a worthy recipient of of the Award for Kindness and Generosity. We are reminded "There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple effect".

Award for Kindness and Generosity to The Indian Accent

COVID challenges the way we conduct business and live our lives ... not always for the better. However, some people though rise up when things get bad, and look beyond their circumstances, to see what they can do to lift others. The Indian Accent restaurant in St Ives recently offered free meals to families who needed help. The Rotary Club of St Ives would like to acknowledge the kindness and generosity displayed by this family owned business in our community. We are reminded "There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple effect".

Invitation - Wednesday 25 August 2021

Invitation for Wednesday 25 August 2021

August is Membership Month and our Rotarians are speaking out

August is Membership Month and here are a few words from some of our members

Something to ponder

VALE Wal Edwards OAM

Ian Edwards, Wal's son advised us of the sad news of the passing of his father.

Wednesday's Wisdom

Obviously we are not meeting in person at the moment, but organising Zoom meetings - all welcome to join.

Join us Wednesday 14 July by Zoom

7 July Zoom Meeting - Hill End Fireside Chat with Marie and Grahame Rivett

Virtual District Changeover Lunch - Sunday 4 July

Watch this space for our updated new date

Bobbin Head Cycle Classic Cocktail Event - presentation of cheques

What a fantastic fundraising effort for the Bobbo ride by the Rotary Clubs of Ku-ring-gai, Turramurra, St Ives, and Wahroonga. Distribution of proceeds from this important event was held at Hornsby BMW this week with over $200,000being distributed to charities. Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury receive 50% of money raised and the other 50% is distributed to: KYDS Youth Development Service, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women's Shelter, Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood-Centre, Bo Children's Hospital, Cromehurst Foundation Special School, Hornsby Connect, Eagles RAPS Inc.and GiantSteps. This event would not be possible without support from our amazing sponsors and riders. Special thanks go to the hundreds of volunteers who worked to make this event possible.

End of 2020-2021 Rotary Year Celebration

Remember to RSVP to Rosemary by Sunday 6 June

And Tom's induction to Rotary Club of St Ives was a first!

Professor Tom Smith has been looking forward to becoming a member of the Rotary Club of St Ives and so we weren't going to let anything get in the way of his induction when unexpected circumstances prevented him from attending the meeting last Wednesday. It's certainly a first for us that a member was inducted over the phone ... just goes to show how flexible and creative we've all become ... and how useful technology is! Welcome Tom and we all look forward to many occasions in the future to share a meal and your company.

When elbows replace hands for new member induction

Welcome to the Rotary Club of St Ives Professor Martina Linnenuecke! Member induction handshakes were replaced by elbow tapping and a little foot dance last Wednesday when Martina became a Rotarian. We're all learning how to have 'fun' doing things differently and look forward to many more occasions that bring us smiles and happy times together!

See you at breakfast next Wednesday?

Induction Meeting for Professor Martina Linnerluacke & Professor Tom Smith Wednesday 26 May

Rotary Club of St Ives Members Celebrating the new Marque this Sunday

Posted on May 18, 2021

INVITATION NTO JOIN US FOR A ZOOM MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY 19 MAY

RSVP to Rosemary for next Wednesday 12 May

RSVP Rosemary by Sunday evening for our Breakfast Wednesday 5 May

It's important that we have accurate numbers for our meetings, especially for getting bookings. Send Rosemary an email by Sunday evening to r.coucouvinis@gmail.com to let her know if you'll be at the Wednesday breakfast.

Check your email for the latest copy of The Waratah that was sent Saturday morning 1 May

Lyndall Letter

Letter from Lyndall

Thank you for your service. Lest we forget!

The week that was …..

District Conference

The District 9685 Conference was held last Sunday via zoom. It was most informative and attended by several Board members. Before the conference, Board members were expected to complete some Rotary learning and development modules relating to their area and then during the conference we were brought up to date with latest policies that have been adopted by our District.

Celebrating with other local Rotary Clubs

As your President, I was very honoured that we, as a Club, had been invited to celebrate the 60/61 anniversary of the Rotary Club of the Upper Northern Beaches on Wednesday evening. The Rotary Club of the Upper Northern Beaches is an amalgamation of the Rotary Clubs of Terrey Hills, Narrabeen Lakes and Pittwater.

For our members information, The Rotary Club of Terrey Hills was chartered by the Rotary Club of St Ives in June 1981 and they became affectionately known as the ‘Terrey Hillbillies’ as their meetings were considered unconventional and outside the normal Rotary way of conducting meetings. LOL During the 33 years the Club operated it has raised over $850 000 from its many fund- raising activities which is a very impressive effort.

As a Club, we should feel very proud that we supported the formation of a new Club all those years ago. The Rotary Club of the Upper Northern Beaches is now thriving. I hope the reconnections that have been made, we will see us working collaboratively on projects including the Northern Beaches Community Cancer Care Project (NBCCC)

We also look forward to continuing to work closely with other Rotary Clubs in our District and beyond on projects.

ANZAC Day

This year our Rotary Club members are assembling at the St Ives War Memorial to unite and recognize past and current armed services personnel. As a Club we respect the men and women who have served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping missions. We will assemble at 10.15 for a service at 10.30 am where we will lay a wreath. Afterwards we will have a coffee or something stronger. We hope you will join us for this very important occasion in support of our Defence Personnel and their families.

Changes to the Board

Thank you to PP Russell Crofts who has retired from the positions of Secretary and Administrator. Russell is our Immediate Past President and will continue to assist our Club as a Board member. Thank you to Dr Bruce Farnsworth who has returned to the position of Secretary and Club Administrator and thank you to Rosemary who now holds the position of Secretary Elect. Great to see so many members becoming involved in the running of our Club.

Next week …

Social dinner at the Terrey Hills Tavern ..cost $30 pp

This Wednesday, 28^th April, is our next social event at the Terrey Hills Tavern. If you haven’t booked then it would be wise to contact Rosemary asap and she may be able to secure you a spot. Please join us and share the Rotary spirit with your Rotarian friends and partners.

Cheers

Lyndall

Email: presidentrcsi2021@gmail.com

ANZAC Day Wreath Laying Service

Rotary Club of St Ives members and friends are invited to join us this coming Sunday morning, 25 April at St Ives Memorial Park at 10.15am for the 10.30am ANZAC Day Service.

Letter from Lyndall

“We make a life by what we get. We make a living by what we give.”

The week that was …..

The Rotary Club of St Ives had another amazing dinner at The Avondale Golf Club last Wednesday evening thanks to the efforts of Di and Barry Barnes and Greg Rappo.

Our special guest speaker was Professor Tom Smith who is the Head of the Department of Applied Finance at Macquarie University. Tom had asked if he could invite his mates Professor Martina Linnenluecke, Professor Baljit Sidhi and Professor John Roberts to join us for the evening to share their pro- bono Indigenous Business Development Program. They have been running this program for five years working with Indigenous Australians in remote indigenous communities across Australia. Professor Tom asked if we could help get the word out re this fantastic program so they can engage more indigenous communities.

Professor Martina Linnenluecke is a Professor of Environmental Finance at Macquarie University’s Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance. Professor John Roberts is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of Fudan University and the London Business School.

Professor Baljit Sidhi is a Professor at the University of Sydney Business School and she has a special interest in corporate reporting, in particular the informational role of accounting data in contracting and firm valuation.

We also had the pleasure of the company of Peter Kirkwood who is the incoming President of the Rotary Club of Wahroonga. Peter was Ku-ring-gai's 2018 Citizen of the Year and he received an OAM for service to the community of northern Sydney. Peter shared his love of the didgeridoo and explained its origin as well as played a range of notes on his collection of didgeridoos.

Robyn Campbell, a teacher at PLC, also joined us. Robyn is a teacher and has been very involved with the indigenous program at Pymble Ladies College and is a collegial friend of Dee Stewart, a former President of the Rotary Club of St Ives.

It was a fun and informative evening and greatly enjoyed by our Rotarians, partners and friends.

Coming up …..

This Sunday is our District Assembly for all members of the Club’s incoming board which this year will be held via zoom.

Our next social event is on the 28^th April at the Terrey Hills Tavern. Please join us and share the camaraderie with your Rotarian friends and partners

YOUTH Week will be celebrated in New South Wales this week. This is a reminder that during this Rotary year, the Audit team from the Office of the Children’s Guardian will be in contact with every organisation in New South Wales that has any involvement with children under the age of 18 years, including every Rotary Club in New South Wales. Any breach on the rules will result in a $10,000.00 fine. All Rotarians need to assist by making sure our own Working With Children Check (WWCC) is up to date. It is incumbent on us to protect our children and youth.

Matt Cross, our Youth Director has been in contact with some members whose WWCC is out of date, about to expire or a person does not have a WWCC. Essential that our members complete this requirement ASAP and send details to Matt Cross.

Cheers

Lyndall

This is YOUTH WEEK and time to check our Working With Children Check is up to date

It is YOUTH WEEK and a reminder to all Rotarians that we take our commitment to the safe-keeping of young people seriously.

The Office of the Children’s Guardian will be in contact with every organisation in New South Wales that has any involvement with children under the age of 18 years, including every Rotary Club in New South Wales. It is incumbent on us as a Rotarian to ensure our own "Working With Children Check" (WWCC) is up to date. Members are asked to check their documentation is still valid and has not expired.

Our Youth Director, Matt Cross has been in contact with some members whose WWCC is out of date, about to expire, or a person does not yet have a WWCC. Please contact Matt if you are a new member and would like assistance to complete the necessary form.

Wednesday 28 April Social Dinner at Terrey Hills Tavern

Wednesday 14 April - Professor Tom Smith

Letter from Lyndall

“We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things”

The week that was …..

I hope you are starting to feel rested after a mammoth effort raising funds at Bobbo and then our Bunnings BBQ last Easter Saturday.

April for the Northern Beaches Community Cancer Care (NBCCC) will have a focus on raising funds for the establishment of the Wig Library at the Northern Beaches Hospital.

Photo left taken from article at: https://manlyobserver.com.au/cancer-charity-launches-with-wig-library-initiative/

Many people, including customers and Bunnings staff, were very impressed that we were are supporting this local and very deserving cause and some donated very generously at the BBQ. Marie Rivett and George did a great job raising awareness people’s awareness of the Wig Library.

On Wednesday evening we had our regular Board meeting where much was discussed including our

Club’s Strategic Plan.

Rotary Vision Statement: Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change - across the globe, in our communities and in ourselves.

Rotary Core Values: Fellowship – Diversity – Integrity – Service – Leadership – Friendship/mates

Rotary Club of St Ives Vision Statement :

We commit ourselves to our Rotary values including Service Above Self, The Four Way Test and Rotary Code of Conduct
We will have fun and endeavour to make the Rotary engagement enjoyable to all
We will continue to make improvements so we are relevant and appealing to all demographics
We will work collaboratively with other local Rotary Clubs and other organisations which we have connections
We will offer a variety of meeting opportunities which provide variety, interest and affordability for our Member
We will re-evaluate what is working well for our Club and make necessary changes to continuously strive to improve
We will set goals and then stretch those goals

Coming up this week …..

We are very privileged to have as our guest speaker Professor Tom Smith from Macquarie University who will talk about a pro-bono Indigenous Business Development program that a group of Academics from Macquarie University, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales are running in remote Indigenous communities across Australia.

PE Peter Kirkwood OAM, from the Rotary Club of Wahroonga, has also been invited to join us. He has agreed to play the digeridoo so it is certainly an evening not to be missed.

I welcome discussions or send me your comments or suggestions about how our Club is working for you particularly what we do well or how we can improve. Your opinion is valued.

Together we are making a difference. Go Team!

Cheers

Lyndall

Email: presidentrcsi2021@gmail.com

Remember to RSVP by this Friday 9 April to hear Professor Tom Smith speak about Indigenous Business Skills Development Program

The week that was ...

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

Bobbo, held last Sunday, was a magnificent team effort as the Rotary Clubs of Wahroonga, Ku ring gai, Turramurra and St Ives pulled all their resources to make it happen. The sun was shining, the cyclists enthusiastic, the volunteers diligent in the duties and the amount raised was significant. The nominated charities will be very pleased that they will be receiving some much needed funds.

On Wednesday evening we had a very entertaining dinner at the Avondale Golf Club. Our special guests included DGE Lindsay May and Tania May. DGE Lindsay will lead our district into the next Rotary year ably assisted by Tania who in her own right is an extremely talented and committed Rotarian. Other distinguished guest were Past District Governors Don Durie, Brian Coleman, George Papallo and Tom Borg Assistant Governor of the cluster.

Many Rotarians commented to me that they were delighted that we had gathered together the Upper North Shore Rotary Cluster which included Rotarians and their partners from The Rotary Clubs of Ku ring gai, Berowra, Wahroonga and St Ives.to share fellowship. I believe it is very important that we get to know each other as a larger Rotary family as there will be many occasions we will be working together.

Thank you to Russell, John S and Rosemary who did the behind the scenes work to make this evening happen.

For those people who could not attend for whatever reason I thought I’d share my introductory speech.

I first met DGE Lindsay May at the dinner last November when I became the Rotary Club of St Ives President.

Someone whispered in my ear that he was a very capable sailor with a long association with the sea and that he was great at telling sea stories. I extended an invitation to him then to come back at a later date and here we are all gathered tonight.

Some of you may or may not know that I am also a sailor and the daughter, grand-daughter and great grand-daughter of sea Captains probably extending back to the Vikings.

DGE Lindsay May, there are several sailors here in the audience tonight and they also have a good understanding of how a yacht sails to its maximum potential.

The decisions of the Captain and Navigator are critical to the safety and well being of the crew and also most importantly whether the boat wins races or not or sails safely.

As we can all appreciate, without a crew the yacht doesn’t sail. In order to sail properly the crew must understand the ropes and be adept at taking all positions. The crew must be willing and able to take orders. The crew must be ever watchful and have a strong voice and be alert for obstacles.

As has occurred in recent times, racing sailing can be a very deadly and dangerous sport but in my opinion one of the most exhilarating and challenging of team sports. Racing sailing is all about precision team work with the collective focus on making the boats sail to its full potential.

My father taught me many years ago the importance of the navigator and the Captain.

I have taken the liberty of using the analogy of sailing to the Rotary experience and journey.

Welcome to the helm Chief navigator and soon to be Master and Commander. May the gentle wind always be behind your back. May your crew be competent and passionate. When we head into stormy seas, may our tacks be long and steady and help guide us until we reach a safe harbour. Most importantly we hope you ‘ll lead us on amazing adventures in this changing world and you and Tania enjoy the voyage.

Finally, our Bunnings BBQ on Easter Saturday was a great success. Our coffers are filling up to support our projects. We had donations boxes out to raise some funds with our newest project supporting the Northern Beaches Cancer Care Charity.

That was the week we had! Interesting, enjoyable and lots of fun.

Coming up ..

Don’t forget our breakfast meeting next Wednesday and our Board meeting on 7/4.

On 14^th April 2021 Professor Tom Smith from Macquarie University will talk about a pro-bono Indigenous Business Development program that a group of Academics from Macquarie, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales are running in remote Indigenous communities across Australia. The purpose of the program is the development of business skills and business acumen to support Indigenous businesses to build their capability and take advantage of opportunities.

The Dinner will be held Avondale Golf Club at 6.30 pm and the cost is $ 55 which includes a two course dinner including fish, steak and dessert. It is important to advise Rosemary of your attendance before the deadline to avoid disappointment.

Hope Easter Bunny managed to find you. (I was hiding because I certainly don’t need to be eating chocolate.lol)

Happy Easter and stay safe

Lyndall

Lyndall Pearson

Rotary Club of St Ives

President 2021-2022

Important statement from Rotary International President Holger Knaack

An important message from Rotary International President Holger Knaack.

Bobbin Head Cycle Classic 2021 was a wonderful success

The Bobbin Head Cycle Classic could not happen without the exceptional support from our wonderful sponsors!

EVERYONE involved with 'The Bobbo' agrees that it was an outstanding success!!

Congratulations Rotary Club of St Ives

BOOK NOW for a fabulous evening next week!

Come along and enjoy a great alternate drop Main Meal of:
Chargrilled beef fillet, parsley & lemon mash, broccolini & fennel citrus salad; or
Grilled Barramundi, crushed new potatoes, steamed veg, apple cider sauce.

For Dessert: Baileys flavoured crème brûlée, with fresh cream and strawberries.
[Special dietary meals available.]

We now also have a special Wine List.

BOOK NOW - RSVP r.coucouvinis@gmail.com

Why not join us when Matt Cross talks about leadership Wednesday 24 March

If you would like to join us next Wednesday, 24 March via Webinar just email Harold@chesterpm.com and he'll organise to advise you of the link to join us.

Join us today to Clean Up Australia!

It's all happening today - Clean Up Australia. Wherever you are on our continent today is the day to clean up our little patch of the world. St Ives Rotarians will be at Karuah Park cleaning up the area so it's beautifully clean ready for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic in three weeks!

Checking the lists - all Bobbo packages complete!

Who would have thought stuffing envelopes could be so much fun? It was a very entertaining morning. George, Javad, Rosemary, Ann, Harold and Lyndall enjoyed a very pleasant morning solving the problems of the world whilst stuffing envelopes! All packages are now complete and ready to go out to the riders. Three weeks today till the Bobbin Head Cycle Classc!

Together we build mountains

Rotary Club of St Ives enjoys halcyon days. Each day of the year Rotarians in our club contribute significantly through their skills and talents to ‘Service Above Self’.

Rotary Clubs are like sedimentary rock. Each individual contributes a layer in the formation of the rock. That combination creates something beautifully unique. Over time each generation of Rotarian through their service increases the height of our organisation.

Everyone who has been a member and is a member leaves a significant legacy. Those individual contributions are evident in the Rotary Club of St Ives sedimentary rock.

Breakfast at The Blue Jar Wednesday 3 March

RSVP process: Advise Rosemary Rosemary Coucouvinis (r.coucouvinis@gmail.com) and deposit $15pp into our club account by Monday evening.

Banking Details: Rotary Club of St Ives Club Account BSB: 633 000 Account: 161 181 334 Ref: ‘Your Name” Breakfast.

Board Meeting Wednesday 3 March

Board Members of the Rotary Club of St Ives will be meeting by Zoom at 6.30pm this Wednesday.

District 9685 Virtual Conference - Rock the Boat

Only 3 weeks to go! The program will be shared this coming week and looks like there is something of interest for everyone with around 4 hours of content broken into smaller blocks with morning tea and lunchtime breaks.!

Time for us to think about what we are going to do to celebrate this special event. Every member will receive the Conference link so no-one need miss out!

District 9685 Assembly Coming Up - Check Dates

This is the training program for all incoming Boards of Clubs. It is essential that incoming Board members, or a representative, participate in these broadcasts.

This will be held on-line as it was in 2020.

Conditions are still somewhat uncertain and having groups as large a District Assembly (i.e. 600-700 attendees) makes it inconceivable to find a venue that would be safe.

More details will be published soon but here are the dates for your diaries.

The District Assembly will occur over 5 non-consecutive Saturdays commencing 18.4.21, then 2.5.21, 16.5.21, 23.5.21 and 30.5.21.

Request to Support end Polio Now

A request to our District Rotarians is that you consider introducing the ‘Clem Renouf END POLIO NOW Club’ to your Rotary clubs. The concept is very simple.

Each Club is requested to set up a branch of the ‘Clem Renouf END POLIO NOW Club’ within their club and ALL members are requested to donate $10 each per year. When the task is complete (for as many members who agree to take part and there must be NO compulsion), the Club may deposit the funds directly into the Sir Clem Renouf Centenary Year Appeal – set up at the beginning of the Rotary year as a tribute to one of Rotary’s great leaders, generally acknowledged as the founder of the End Polio campaign.

We believe this fund raiser is achievable, given most Rotarians will donate $10 to become a member of such a club – as the donation process is simple and well organised! Imagine the impact … With more than 30,000 Rotarians in New Zealand and Australia, if just half our numbers joined the club we would collect more than $150,000 and change the course of personal giving forever.
Bob Aitken

Can you spare an hour each week for Lifeline?

Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury are looking for volunteers in the North Shore area to join the incredible Community Visitors Scheme 9CVS. It is a wonderful program that allows volunteers to make a difference in their local community. By offering companionship to the lonely and isolated in an Aged care Facility – all it takes is an hour of their time once a week or fortnight. You can imagine that programs like these are so important as many of the vulnerable among us have become further isolated because of COVID-19.

People interested simply need to call Lifeline on 9498 8805 or email community.volunteers@lifeline2H.org.au

Fabulous Youth Night last Wednesday 24 February

Great guests, Avondale Golf Club and superb catering set the scene for what was an inspiring evening showcasing youth! We were very pleased to welcome The Speaker of the House, Jonathan O’Dea to this very special evening. Photo left: Jonathan O’Dea MP, Lyndall President, Anousheh, Georgia and Matt

Our candidates Anousheh Moonen and Georgia Bonadio, spoke with passion and joy about their experiences at the National Youth Science Forum. Despite the event being held virtually it contained all the excitement and WOW factors we have come to expect from this event. The girls are outstanding young women and we look forward to hearing from them in the future when they embark on their university studies next year.

Hugh Burne from Wahroonga Rotary shared his views on the “Future of the Workforce” based on research from leading universities in the USA and encouraged the girls to set their goals high.

Great Result from Bunnings BBQ this weekend!

Another fabulous effort from the BBQ team at Bunnings this weekend!

Although the morning was a little grey and damp, spirits were high amongst the dedicated team of workers.

Many thanks to all who helped especially Tim for slaving over a hot plate for the full day and then turns into a ferrous cleaner of everything that is in reach. Thank you all, although trade was steady we did provide 620 sausage sandwiches to grateful customers. Thanks also to Russell for negotiating a free issue of soft drinks from his long suffering neighbour. Thank you Nathan your generosity

Thursday 4 March - Envelope Stuffers Needed

Harold makes it very easy to be an envelope stuffer by providing very comfortable working conditions and gorgeous food to keep workers happy. Whilst some 1,500 envelopes have been done there is still 1,000 to go!

If you have a couple of hours to spare to help out next Thursday 4 March please let Harold know you can come and join the small band of envelope stuffers … guaranteed smiles and laughter – not to mention great company! Special thanks to all who came this week:)

Wednesday 3 March - Breakfast at The Blue Jar

RSVP process: Advise Rosemary Rosemary Coucouvinis (r.coucouvinis@gmail.com) and deposit $15pp into our club account by Monday evening.

Banking Details: Rotary Club of St Ives Club Account BSB: 633 000 Account: 161 181 334 Ref: ‘Your Name” Breakfast.

March is Rotary Water and Sanitation Month

Clean water is a basic need for human beings. When people, especially children, have access to clean water, they live healthier and more productive lives. At least 3,000 children die each day from diseases caused by unsafe water, which is what motivates our members to build wells, install rainwater harvesting systems, and teach community members how to maintain new infrastructure.

While very few people die of thirst, millions die from preventable waterborne diseases, providing the impetus for our members to also improve sanitation facilities in undeveloped countries. Members start by providing toilets and latrines that flush into a sewer or safe enclosure and then add education programs to promote hand-washing and other good hygiene habits.

From the various water projects in which Rotary has participated, we have come to know the obstacles that many people across the globe face when it comes to some of the basic necessities of life. We tend to take for granted the clean and generally safe and plentiful water sources to which we have access.

Rotary International, through the combined actions of individual Rotarians and Rotary Clubs, seeks to assure that all people have adequate access to clean and safe water. The Rotary theme for March asks us to focus on the life changing improvements that we can make through these international projects to provide a more readily available and healthy supply of water to all people.

The problem is not that the world will run out of water (that amount is fixed through evaporation and re-condensation). The problem is the unequal distribution of water and the lack of universal proper sanitary practices to assure safe water for drinking. While some regions and peoples are certainly at greater risk than others and deserving of greater attention, we have seen recently that no population is free from concern.

Rotary is dedicated to seven areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world. Water and Sanitation month asks us to focus on the life-changing improvements that we can make through international projects to provide a more readily available and healthy supply of water to all people. Water and Sanitation is one of those seven Rotary areas of focus.

The Royal Australian Mint has made a special silver coin in celebration of 100 years of Rotary in Australia

In 2021, Rotary marks a centenary of proud community service across Australia. To commemorate the milestone the Royal Australian Mint has produced this elegant silver proof coin. The coin honours the big hearts of the 30,000 Rotary members and 1100 plus clubs across the country, which run programs such as youth exchanges, fundraise for bushfire recovery and bring life changing surgery to the Asia Pacific region.

Available now: http://bit.ly/2YWUxyM

We need volunteers for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic on Sunday 28 March

We are in urgent need of street marshal volunteers for this important event. The time slots needed are for 7am – 10am OR 10am – 1pm. Please see the flyer for more details about this event – especially the number of charities who benefit from this event. Remember to share this request with your family and friends.

If you can volunteer send John the following information so you can be put on our database:

- Full name

- Mobile phone number

- email address

- Confirmation of which shift you wish to do: 7am-10am OR 10am–1pm

His email is jkwsydey@bigpond.com

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 27 February BUNNINGS BBQ

Thanks to Harold and John who are organising the food and drinks, to Grahame for organising the roster schedule, and ALL our fabulous members who have volunteered their time to cook, serve and clean up ion Saturday 27 February. The Bunnings BBQ is a great example of effective teamwork resulting in raising much needed money for our programs. Be sure to make your way to Bunnings on the day to buy the best sausage sizzle sandwich and support the team.

Envelope Stuffers Needed - Tuesday 23 and Thursday 25 February

Envelope stuffers start your loosening up exercises for nimble and quick hands for the annual stuffing of envelopes in the last week of February.

Dates and times, Tuesday February 23 and Thursday 25 from 10.00am until 2,500 envelopes are stuffed. Vacancies exist for first time helpers no experience required with extensive on job training provided, friendly, clean and comfortable working conditions, refreshments served, no interview required. Unfortunately we cannot offer free health care or superannuation. Come and help Harold and the team prepare over 1,000 envelope packages for the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic.

SAVE THE DATE - YOUTH NIGHT 24 FEBRUARY

Time to organise volunteers for The Bobbo

We need to get on the phone, send out emails and talk to everyone we know about volunteering for The Bobbo coming up in March. Rotary Club of St Ives needs to provide over 100 volunteers for this event and than means getting family, friends and neighbours involved.

Rotarians are reminded to let John Waterhouse know what times you are available on the day.

Time to get organised ... time to share the fun of being part of this fabulous event!

True Blue Rotarians Celebrating Australia Day

Celebrating Australia Day with Mates

So where does our drinking water come from?

Our first meeting for 2021

Tree of Joy Delivery Days

You can follow the whole story of the 2020 Tree of Joy by visiting our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/StIvesRotaryNSW

December is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month

Tree of Joy update

Calling all original thinkers for Think Tank Fund Raising Committee

This Week - Wednesday 9 December is our AGM

Thank you Russell and Congratulations Lyndall

Welcome to Rotary Club of St Ives Javad and Darren

Wal and the Tree of Joy

Wal's words on the meaning of life

As a Foundation Member Wal speaks about membership

Happy 104th Birthday Wal Edwards

Week 1 of the Tree of Joy

Our volunteers are all heart!

Our volunteers are amazing people! Meet Susie ... not only is she helping us with manning the Tree of Joy, but she also kindly made the beautiful red tablecloth, which is a new addition to our stand this year! Susie is a former member of the Rotary Club of St Ives and comes back to help us out for special occasions. Always so good to see you Susie!

Tree of Joy starts Monday 23 November

Spread the joy of Christmas! Be sure to visit the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy at St Ives Shopping Village this coming week and leading right up to Christmas. The way it works is community members collect a card off the tree , with the name of a resident in a nursing home, and their request for a gift. The community buy the gift for them and return it to the Tree of Joy stand gift wrapped and with the card attached. The Rotary Club of St Ives will ensure the gifts are delivered to the residents before Christmas.

11 November - Lest We Forget our Diggers

Befitting we share an interview with Wal Edwards OAM, aged 103 talking about his life on Remembrance Day. At age 104 years this month Wal has so much wisdom to share.

Copy the URL and watch the video interview with James Griffin MP - soak in the words - be inspired!

Wal Edwards OAM 103 year old Australian Military Veteran. The Rotary Club of St Ives is holding a birthday celebration for Wal on Wednesday 25 November ... as you can tell from this interview Wal is still involved in the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy which opens at St Ives Shopping Centre later this month.

Video Link: https://www.sevenmile.org.au/blog/interview-with-wal-edwards-oam-103-year-old-australian-military-veteran

Save the Date: 25 November to celebrate Wal's 104th Birthday

We believe our Wal Edwards just may be a world record breaker ... as the eldest active Rotarian ... we are going to do some research to find out if this is so! Watch this space. Anyway Wal will be turning 104 years young on 22nd November and we are hoping he and Joan will join in celebration of his wonderful life and the immense impact he has had on all who know him.

Save the Date: 15 November for a Family Picnic

Save the Date: 11 November Gibbs Brewing Company

We will get to hear from Alex Gibbs about the story of this family run business of handcrafted and bottled beer by the Gibbs Brothers. They have an obsession with boutique beer and the use of high quality raw ingredients and expertise in brewing creates a unique premium beer. A night not to miss and remember to let your family and friends know to join us - more details to come.

Wednesday 4 November - Breakfast at the Blue Jar

November is Rotary Foundation Month

Bunnings BBQ a GREAT success

We raised $1,294.53 selling 670 sausages and a great quantity of drinks before the weather forecast came to pass with the heavens breaking out with a good old thunder storm. It great seeing Matt experiencing his first Rotary BBQ and ex members Christiane and Judy Gordon returning to help out! So thanks to all those who helped and it seemed enjoy the day and had some fun in doing so. Photo below shows: Lyndall Pearson, Harold Morgan, Matt Cross, Greg Rappo, Christiane Berlioz, John Steel and Tim England.

Acknowledging the role of Teachers on World Teachers Day

To acknowledge the good work of teachers on World Teachers Day ten schools in St Ives received a basket apples for staff. Over 500 teachers in primary and secondary schools in St Ives munched on apples thanks to the generosity of Fita Fruita and the initiative of the Rotary Club of St Ives Club.

We are very grateful for the support of Fita Fruita who donated the apples. Be sure to let them know how wonderful they are in supporting this community event next time you are in there picking up the best quality fruit available on the North Shore.

Do It One and Do It Well

The recipients of the Pride of Workmanship Awards were impressive and reminds of just how significant it is to building a better Australia when we “Do it once and Do it well”. We had a fabulous evening at Canisius House where our four worth recipients received their Pride of Workmanship Award. Special thanks to our Vocational Director Murray Lennon who organised the Pride of Workmanship Awards.

Pride of Workmanship Awards

The Waratah - 28 October 2020

World Polio Day - 24 October

Many adults around the world remember these scenes of thousands of children in wheel chairs, calipers, and in iron lungs. Many adults around the world had their lives permanently changed as a result of contracting polio. It was a terrible illness. No child today need worry about polio!

31 October - We're at Bunnings

Wednesday 29 October - Pride of Workmanship

Wednesday 28th October we celebrate our Pride of Workmanship Awards. It will be held at Canisius House 6.30pm for 7.00 pm. Murray Lennon OAM will introduce and present the Awards, the fruition of a long awaited project. COVID19 restrictions apply and are strictly enforced. There is a limit of 24 diners, hand sanitiser is provided and distancing is in place. A mask is also advisable. Please advise by Sunday 25th 6.00 pm any Apologies, RSVP's and Guests as well as Special Dietary Requirements. The cost of dinner is $35.00, and money can be deposited in the Club Account as follows:

St Ives Rotary BSB :633 000. Account 161 181 334

Wednesday 21 October - Recycling in Ku-ring-gai

Mark down the new date -31 October 2020

Looking forward to Zoom Meeting 14 October with Vien Nguyen

10 October - World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries. This year more than any other we need to focus on caring for our mental health and supporting others.

Breakfast Wednesday 7 October

Our Wednesday morning Breakfast meeting is always a relaxed affair. It is also an important time to catch up informally, discuss issues of concern and importance to club members. Wednesday 7 October 2020 was no less that than that ... and problems of the world seemed a little lighter after a good breakfast and great chat.

The Waratah - 7 October 2020 has been emailed out tonight

Want to know more about the Rotary Club of St Ives? It costs nothing to be a Friend of Rotary and you can unsubscribe any time. Contact editor of The Waratah, Di Barnes (mrsdibarnes@yahoo.com.au) go on our mailing list.

R U OK?

Thinking of all our Rotarians, family and friends and asking the important question that requires more dialogue ... more understanding and more compassion. The world can change for someone with just one phone call asking one question ...

It's Rotary Membership Month

Our Membership Director John Waterhouse shares the following message from the Membership team in District 9685 ...

August is Membership and New Club Development Month, a time to recognise our members and the amazing work they do in their communities. In 2020, Rotarians around the world are finding ways to open opportunities, showing their incredible dedication and commitment to making the world a safer and better place.

Membership Month is also a great time to consider how we people can engage with Rotary.

Here are just a few ideas on how to keep your members involved:

- "Travel" around the world with Rotary. Many Rotary and Rotaract clubs are holding virtual events and meetings instead of gathering in person. Now is a perfect time to visit! See if it is meeting online at another club, and request an online meeting invitation link. Whether you are visiting a different club in your hometown or a club halfway across the world, you will meet new people and enjoy a new Rotary experience. Our club has been able to link up meetings with Rotarians in England and India ... as well as sharing our meetings with people in other states in Australia.

- Get creative with your own meetings and events. If your club is thinking about moving club meetings online exclusively or simply offering a virtual option, look at the Meeting Online learning topic (My Rotary login required) for tips on virtual engagement. We had hoped to be meeting in person after a successful breakfast meeting but wisdom dictated we revert back to online for the time being.

- Learn something new. You can develop and practice your communication skills with new courses in the Learning Center (My Rotary login required). The Develop a Speech course teaches ways to organize a speech that will leave a lasting impression on your audience. The Deliver a Speech course focuses on the use of body language and the effective use of vocal variety. These courses, developed exclusively for Rotary members by Toastmasters International, are part of a series on leadership development. Some members have engaged in the Learning Centre and completed a few short courses ... if you haven't done so yet you need to give it a go ... the way of the future for learning it seems and a very efficient use of our time.

- Make sure your club members are heard. To be engaged, members need to feel they are getting value out of their Rotary experience. Clubs should ask their members what they are interested in and how they would like to be involved. Conduct a member satisfaction survey, host a virtual group discussion, or brainstorm new ideas at an upcoming club meeting. Then start planning how you will use those ideas. We get our chance to give voice to our views a couple of times a week ... prior to the start of our Zoom meetings, at the Friday Yardarm and of course through emails and phone calls. Start thinking about why you joined Rotary and make sure you have an updated photo of yourself so we can again do a member profile ... our member stories are our best promotion.

- Don’t ignore your club’s challenges. Answer a few questions in the Club Planning Assistant to get solutions that are tailored to the issues you are facing. Talk with others in your club about how to put those solutions into practice. the issues you are facing. Talk with others in your club. Watch this space! After our fabulous meeting with Mark Huddleston last week we've all got some new perspectives about the way forward and what we want our club to be engaged with.

Challenging times require creative solutions and our club members are working on just that.

Join us this week and meet Mark Huddleston author of Creatures of Habit

Where there is a will there is a way!

2020 St Ives Food and Wine Festival cancelled

The St Ives Food and Wine Festival team held off as long as possible before cancellation of our major und-raiser! The uncertain journey of COVID-19 in our community has been a painful for everyone, and we had hoped (with fingers crossed) that NSW was going to track well through this pandemic, but recent events elsewhere in the country translated to
increased problems for us. However, your FWF team is committed to doing everything possible to make 2021 our BEST year yet! Visit our website and Facebook and leave your supportive comment.

Website: www.stivesfoodandwine.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stivesfoodandwinefestival

2020-2021 Rotary Year Begins 1 July with a new theme of "Rotary Opens Opportunities"

Each Rotary year the President of Rotary International sets a theme for Rotarians and their clubs to adopt in their activities.

President-elect Holger Knaack’s theme for 2020-21 is Rotary Opens Opportunities, asks Rotarians to create opportunities that strengthen their leadership, help put service ideas into action and improve the lives of those in need.

Rotary also has a set of monthly themes throughout the year. The theme for the month of July is New Leadership Transition Month. The passing of the batton of Presidency from one year to another is always a time of transition. The Rotary Club of St Ives is not experiencing such transitional changes with our Board members agreeing to continue for the 2020-2021 year.

You are invited to join our Zoom meeting this Wednesday 1 July

Rotary Club of St Ives invites you to join our online Zoom meeting (5.30-6.30pm) on 1st July. We look forward to hearing from Ms Linda Wake who will describe the work her volunteer teams at Ku-Ring-Gai Neighbourhood Centre and the D-cafes. Continuing to connect with people with Dementia and theircarers has presented a challenge during these months of social distancing. Challenging times call for creative solutions and we will be inspired to learn how volunteers have been able to maintain engagement during these difficult COVID 19 circumstances.

To join our Zoom meeting all you need to do is let Rosemary (r.coucouvinis@gmail.com) or Harold (harold@chesterpm.com) know before noon on Monday so that you can receive the invitation details for this coming Wednesday.

Members if you plan to donate (the suggested $15) the banking details are below and please remember to include your name:

St Ives Rotary BSB: 633 000 Account Number 161 181 334

What are you wearing this Wednesday?

BIRTHDAY CHEERS TO BHUVAN UNHELKAR

At our Zoom meeting last week we raised our glasses to wish PP Bhuvan Unhelkar, now residing in the USA, a happy 60th Birthday! Best wishes Bhuvan - you may be far away but never far from our thoughts. You would have enjoyed the banter between Russell and John about who had the largest glass - John won by far!

Our Zoom meetings are alway a lot of fun - you might considering joining us one week
!

Rotary - Shaping the Next 100 Years

On Wednesday 17 June at 5.30pm via Zoom PDG Peter Frueh will talk to us about 'The Future of Rotary in Australia'. PDG Peter Freuth is a member of the The Rotary Regional Pilot Project Team and we have arranged for him to speak to us on the importance of this project for the future of Rotary in our Region. Our Core Team consists of local Rotarians with wide experience in Rotary. As Rotarians this project is a unique opportunity for us to contribute and I urge you to attend.

At the very least, please undertake the survey which is closing June 19. Either included or attached to this Waratah is an email forwarded to me by our PDG Brian Coleman thanking him for taking the time to provide his thoughts on Shaping Rotary’s Future in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands. To reply click on this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfM9UKRyqW3tu-KrDbd5X3ih3k-uGsJqg3oTIoDn-AIp6xprQ/viewform

Peter Frueh was District Governor for D9800 in 2017-18. This District covers central and western Melbourne, plus Bendigo. He is currently District Membership Director. He is also an Assistant Rotary Co-ordinator and during 2020-22 will have responsibility for Districts 9790, 9800, 9810 and 9820, giving a broad exposure to the Victorian Districts. Peter is also Co-Chair of the Zone 8 Regional Pilot which is redesigning Rotary in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This involves increasing the scope and reach of Rotary and Rotaract in our Region.

Peter has a senior corporate background in Telstra and Hewlett Packard, as well as running his own Change Management consulting business.

Refugee Week 14-20 June

Pam Dunn is a St Ives lady (retired educator) who is also a member of an organisation called “Grandmothers for Refugees”.  She is passionate about supporting some of the most vulnerable members in our community.

Friday last week Pam collected five boxes of books and three boxes of musical instruments and toys for refugee children donated by Di Barnes on behalf of Rotary Club of St Ives.  The books and toys will be distributed to refugee children through “Mums 4 Refugees”.

Di Barnes has a particular passion for refugees having worked in a Vietnamese refugee camp for four years in the 1970’s as a volunteer educational and welfare coordinator for 2,000 refugees.  She also liaised with UNHCR and Malaysian Red Crescent as an advocated for refugees.

Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to inform the public about refugees and celebrate positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) coordinated the first World Refugee Day 20 June 2001.

Have you thought about being a phone volunteer?

The Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Community Centre is still looking for volunteers to support vulnerable members in our community. If you can spare an hour or more a week please be in touch with them and learn more about the amazing work they do and how you might be able to help. It may be a small amount of time to you but could make the world to someone else.

If you would like to know more contact:

9988 4966 or email: info@knc.org.au to register your interest

Looking for a safe venue to visit for a meal? Remember her St Ives Club!

Last week St Ives Club Chairman Kevin Latham gave us a brief history of how the St Ives Club coped with the initial Covid shutdown.

We are delighted to update they re-opened the Club and The Ivers Restaurant on Thursday 4^th June. The support for The Ivers Restaurant has been wonderful with 50 max allowed and they look forward to welcoming us as soon as we can arrange our program.

We are fortunate to have such a great community venue and facility in the heart of St Ives and as we know from our meetings there the meals are reasonably priced and utterly delicious! Think of them when you want to dine out and have a drink, but not have to travel too far.

Over the Yardarm this Friday 19 June

Let President Russell know if you can join the group for a Friday night catchup - it's just half an hour of hello, how are you and catch up with what's been happening in your week. Keep a watch out for an email from Russell with all the details.

Do you have an Hawaiian outfit to wear on Wednesday 24 June?

If you don't have anything Hawaiian to wear to our Luau meeting on Wednesday 24 June? Be in touch with Di Barnes at mrsdibarnes@yahoo.com if you need some help with a floral shirt, lai or grass shirt! She will be happy to help you out!

To comply with distance distancing you can pick it up from St Ives Chase or Di will drop it off to your place if you can't get to her.

We want everyone to have some fun dressing for the occasion on for our Winter Luau so check your wardrobe now to see what you've got!

You're invited to OVER THE YARD ARM

President Russell is inviting Rotarians to share an OVER THE YARD ARM catch up drink this coming Friday.

It's another St Ives Rotary Club first!

Inspiring Presentation for our District Governor

Our meeting last Wednesday 27th May - DG Kalma McLellan “Reasons and Rotary” The last time we met DG Kalma McLellan as a Club was on 24th July last year when she visited us early in her reign. At our meeting last week, Kalma reflected on her year as our DG. She congratulated all Rotarians on their flexibility while coping with the COVID- 19 isolation and shutdown over the past few months. She also shared some of the challenges facing Rotary in the future and discussed some of the topics that interested her. Our Clubs in D9685 accomplished quite a lot in 2019-20.
Near the top of the list of challenges was still membership, but no-one expected something like COVID-19 to throw the entire world into a spin and replace everything else as top worry. Kalma has been a great District Governor and we hope she enjoys her ‘retirement’ as a member of Ryde being an active grandmother who “enjoys sporadic golf, reading and a good wine.”

Wednesday 3 June - Stuart Clark - RFS

Wednesday 3rd June we look forward to hearing from Stuart Clark on Zoom talk about “Bushfires in Ku-ring-gai – NSW Fire Service”. Stuart is the President and a Deputy Captain of Killara Fire Brigade – the state’s newest brigade. Stuart lives in Killara and has been a member of the RFS for 47 years. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share with us so don't miss joining us for this special event.

Stuart Clark is the President and a Deputy Captain of Killara Rural Fire Brigade – the state’s newest brigade. He has been a member of the Service for 47 years. A long- time resident of Ku-ring-gai, Stuart is a lawyer in his ‘other’ life. He was a partner in Clayton Utz for and is a former President of the Law Council of Australia. Stuart, his wife Narelle, also a member of the RFS, and their two sons live in Killara.

Stuart is very happy to have any questions in advance so he can weave it into the presentation.

Mark 20-26 June in your Diary

Mark your calendars for 20-26 June for an exciting opportunity to gather online with the family of Rotary for our first online convention.
This year's virtual convention is a great opportunity to connect with Rotary participants from around the world to experience the spirit of Rotary, find inspiration

through innovation, celebrate our resilience and ability to adapt, exchange ideas, explore how clubs are addressing COVID-19 around the world, and much more.
The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention will join you with Rotary participants around the world during a time of unprecedented challenges.

Now More than Ever, Rotary Connects the World: The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention 20-26 June ~ Schedule at a glance

Your help is needed!

The Ku-ring-gai Neighbourhood Community Centre is still looking for volunteers to support vulnerable member s in our community. If you can spare an hour or more a week please be in touch and learn more about the amazing work they do and how you might be able to help. It may be a small amount of time to you but could mean the world to someone else!

If you would like to know more contact:
9988 4966 or email: info@knc.org.au to register your interest.

The Salvation Army Red Shield "Digital Door-knock" Appeal

Join This Team to start your "digital doorknock" and fundraise for us. Your help will make a difference! The Red Shield Appeal is The Salvation Army's signature annual fundraising drive, supporting their vast network of social and community services. The Salvation Army has made the decision on a national level to not hold door knocks or static collection sites due to Covid 19, which means our collecting this year will all be online. In these unprecedented times we know that our services will be in high demand as people face the financial and social fallout of this major global event.

Go online now and make a donation – it’s so easy!

https://digitaldoorknock.salvationarmy.org.au/st-ives-wahroonga-salvos

Rotary Theme for June - Fellowships

June is designated Rotary Fellowships Month to recognize the importance of international fellowship and goodwill among Rotarians with similar recreational and vocational interests, promote increased participation in fellowships, and increase understanding of this program.

“Fellowship is wonderful; it illuminates life’s pathway, spreads good cheer, and is worth high price.” Rotary Founder, Paul Harris

What are the benefits for Rotarians in joining the Rotary Fellowships?

Fellowship provides opportunities for Rotarians to make lasting friendships outside their own Club, District or country. Fellowships contribute to the advancement of world understanding and peace. Also, Fellowships serve as an incentive for attracting new members to Rotary and retaining our existing members. Indeed, Rotary Fellowship, together with the Rotarian Action Groups, serve as an effective tool in promoting membership development and should be actively promoted in our Districts.

There are many Fellowships that would be of interest to our members, and they are detailed on http://www.rotary.org/fellowships.

Rotary Matters with Ian Stuart

Designed to recognise and honour emergency services personnel who reflect the Rotary motto of Service Above Self, RESCA also funds a Research Scholarship into PTSD in emergency services workers and supports a Vocational Training Team to assist an Asia Pacific country with their own disaster preparedness. We meet Dot Hennessey OAM, the tireless and passionate visionary who pioneered RESCA and its expansion to become an Australia wide initiative. Who do you know who is worthy of recognition? Nominations close on 31 May 2020. www.rescawards.org.au Here is an edited version of the program last Friday:

https://soundcloud.com/user-410080704/recognising-our-emergency-services-resca-22-may-2020?

fbclid=IwAR15h2td9LZQZOhjHVKWqaBMaBObyDenchVsG0kgVIjiYma9H6zVa3K96bU

Rotary Matters On air Fridays 3-4 pm, live streamed and accessible via Rotary Matters Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community-Service/Rotary-Matters-236335787009403/

Listen Live at: http://www.radio-australia.org/triple-h-1001-fm

ZOOM meeting next week - Stuart Clark RFS

Remember to invite your friends to join us and grow the Rotary Club of St Ives friends … we have so much to celebrate and share as an organisation!

Stuart Clark is the President and a Deputy Captain of Killara Rural Fire Brigade – the state’s newest brigade. He has been a member of the Service for 47 years. A long-time resident of Ku-ring-gai, Stuart is a lawyer in his ‘other’ life. He was a partner in Clayton Utz for and is a former President of the Law Council of Australia. Stuart, his wife Narelle, also a member of the RFS, and their two sons live in Killara. Stuart is very happy to have any questions in advance so he can weave it into the presentation. If you have any questions please send them through to Peter Lorschy this week.

2020 Red Shield Appeal Digital Doorknock

Join this Team to start your "digital doorknock" and fundraise for us. Your help will make a difference! The Red Shield Appeal is The Salvation Army's signature annual fundraising drive, supporting their vast network of social and community services. The Salvation Army has made the decision on a national level to not hold door knocks or static collection sites due to Covid 19, which means our collecting this year will all be online. In these unprecedented times we know that our services will be in high demand as people face the financial and social fallout of this major global event.

Go online now and make a donation – it’s so easy!

https://digitaldoorknock.salvationarmy.org.au/st-ives-wahroonga-salvos

ZOOM Meeting this Week - District Governor Kalma McLellan

Update on Room to Read during COVID-19

Several members of the Rotary Club of St Ives are personal contributors to Room to Read. It has been a recipient of donations from the Rotary Club of St Ives for the last five years. Anyone interested in learning more about this organisation will find the following link useful to learn more: https://www.roomtoread.org/thelatest

The effect of COVID 19 is affecting people across the world, every charitable organisation, and those most vulnerable in our community.

Peter Lorschy recently attended a zoom meeting of the Sydney Chapter of Room to Read to hear from Cherry Ng, Development Manager based in Sydney, about how Room to Read is continuing to work in the 16 countries in which it operates. The challenges of providing education during this period of history are many, and yet disruption to learning only exacerbates existing inequalities, leaving girls more vulnerable to abuse and poverty.

Can you spare an hour a week?

BowelCare Kits availble till end of May

The end of May is fast approaching so don’t forget to pick your BowelCare Kit next time you’re shopping. A small investment of time and money could potential save your life. Thanks go to Harold Morgan for coordinating this project to support this important community service.

Please save your stamps for us

No matter how old or current, Australian or international, soaked off or still on the envelope - every stamp is valued! Please remember to save your old stamps to pass on to Daryl Coleman. She is coordinating their collection to raise money for a Rotary project.

The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

Mark your calendars for 20-26 June for an exciting opportunity to gather online with the family of Rotary for our first online convention.

This year's virtual convention is a great opportunity to connect with Rotary participants from around the world to experience the spirit of Rotary, find inspiration through innovation, celebrate our resilience and ability to adapt, exchange ideas, explore how clubs are addressing COVID-19 around the world, and much more.

Experience Rotary in action during our Flag Ceremony, witness the power of connection during our general sessions, learn new ways to engage with Rotary during our breakout sessions, find inspiration from our global speakers, and much more. The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention will join you with Rotary participants around the world during a time of unprecedented challenges.

Now More than Ever, Rotary Connects the World: The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention
20-26 June ~ Schedule at a glance

Rotary Aboriginal Health Purple House Prokect

There are so many Rotary projects – this is just one to improve the health and wellbeing of indigenous Australians through increased access to remote support, hygiene awareness, purchase of specialised equipment and through specialised training. Learn more at:

https://donations.rawcs.com.au/81-2019-20

Ku-ring-gai Council's "Open For Business"

Ku-ring-gai Council’s "Open for Business" program continues with two excellent webinar events planned. Focus will be on developing an "emerging from COVID" business plan and ensuring you are accessing all the government financial support to which you are entitled .

Open For Business: “Emerge from COVID-19” business plan 27 May, 10am-12 pm

Join Brendan Ryan, a business consultant who specialises in helping Australian SMEs. He will take you through a 12-step business plan, tailored for SMEs in the post-COVID environment.

You will receive a planning template which Brendan will walk through, with advice and guidance on building your own robust business plan.

By attending this session you will get: A clear understanding of the business planning process; planning template tailored for your size/ complexity of business; Specific guidance to help you create your own personalised plan; Advice on how to use this plan to then improve, grow and succeed.

Open for Business: “Government financial support” Wednesday 3 June 10am-12pm

Keith Whelan, AKA the Grants Guy will review the COVID 19 financial support currently available from the state and federal government. He will also discuss other grants that are out there for different sectors and how you can successful apply for them. This webinar will also show you how to prepare for future grants funding. You will learn about: Identification, explanation and review of Federal & State Government COVID 19 Business Support Funding and Government Business Grants; Planning for a grants applications; Guidance on grant writing including practical writing tips; Creating grants templates for standard application questions

Register now - https://au.openforms.com/Form/91a326b7-7adb-44bc-9e4a-ee1e896137bc

The Salvation Army Red Shield 'Digital Door Knock' needs your help!

The Rotary Club of St Ives is supporting the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal again this year, but things will be done a little differently in 2020.

We are sharing a graphic with our social media networks, family and friends and asking them to distribute the graphic to their networks. This person to person promotion has a big potential but it does require people to help spread the word over the coming weeks.

Doing a "Digital Door Knock' is new to everyone, and will require an enthusiastic response to spread the word. Please share the attached graphic via email and social media, with a personal message asking your contacts to then pass it forward to their networks. You know how it works ... personal approaches are the best way to spread the word.

Thank you in advance for helping the Salvos to continue to support those in our community with the greatest need. Don't forget to make your donation online, it's so easy to do, just visit: https://digitaldoorknock.salvationarmy.org.au/st-ives-wahroonga-salvos

Wednesday 13 May Zoom Club Meeting

With the gradual relaxation of the isolation regulations, we look forward to becoming more involved in the community. In the meantime there have been suggested changes in all Club operations.

I look forward to updating to updating you on our re-opening of the D-Cafe (the KNC and computers); Foodbank and their increased contributions, not to schools, but to community service organisations; other Clubs and their meeting details. Should we continue Zoom meetings at least once per month when we return to normal?

To register for attendance at the Zoom meeting this coming Wednesday 13 May at 5.30PM please email Harold Morgan so that he can register you and advise of the meeting ID number for this week.

Reflections on our meeting last Wednesday 3 May 2020

It was great to see 27 members and guests attend our Zoom meeting last Wednesday 6^th May.
Wendy Carver’s update on the role of “Lifeline during the Coronavirus Crisis” reinforced the importance of organisations that are offering counselling services for so many in our community that desperately need support at the moment. The Hotline is open 24/7 [13 11 14] for all our community.

Lifeline was our major beneficiary from the funds left to us to distribute from our wonderful Bobbo sponsors and riders when the event could not be run because of the Covid-19 shutdown. The costs of running the telephone counselling has sky-rocketed as there are over 800% more calls being received and made more difficult when face to face counselling was not allowed.

Thankfully Government funding has assisted meeting the mounting running costs but still, Lifeline’s reserves have seen a large reduction. LIFELINE still needs our support due to increasing costs and many of you would like to make a contribution of part or all of your meal costs saved.
Last week, thanks to your generosity, we were able to make a contribution of $500 to assist the AWC during these difficult times as they look after our wildlife.

Some of you indicated that you would like to donate some or all of what your normal meal would have cost to Lifeline You can donate via St Ives RC and we will contribute on your behalf.

Please remit your donation to: Rotary Club of St Ives-Club Account
BSB: 633 000. Account: 161 181 334

Ref: Your name plus “Lifeline”. Don’t forget to let John Steel know as well!

Can you spare an hour?

Our ZOOM meeting this week - Wednesday 29 April 2020

We are delighted that our ZOOM meetings are proving to be such a success. Indeed last week we had higher than usual Rotarians able to attend and a few Friends of Rotary! It was particularly good to have a former member, Roger Corbin, attend a meeting with us online last week!

If you would like to attend our online meeting this Wednesday, please email Rosemary (rcoucouvinis@gmail.com) or Harold (harold@chesterpm.com) before 5pm Monday. The process requires that your email is needed to register your invitation and attendees need an ID invitation number for each meeting. It's straightforward, but these admin arrangements are essential prior to the meeting.

Zoom meetings are a fabulous way for people interested in our club to have a live insight without needing to leave home, and of course there are no dinner fees. Our meetings are proving to be less formal and a lot of fun.

We are collecting clothing for charities

With the usual charity shops being closed due to the Corona virus we have organised for delivery directly to organisations that have a need for good quality second-hand clothing to support their clients. Please contact one of the following Rotarians if you have suitable items for donation. They are three distinctly different types of clothing so please make contact with either Russell, Di or Christiane depending of the items you are donating.

Russell is collecting suitable clothing for Wesley Gardens Belrose Residential Aged Care.It is the official name of the facility we all know as “Wesley Gardens Belrose”. At the moment, due to the restrictions visiting retirement homes, Russell contacts the community relations manager and arranges to deliver (large green plastic garbage) bags to the side entrance where the nurses collect them. Wesley has over 200 residents, including a dementia facility and the residents always need clothing. Practical nighties are always handy as are easy to put on tracksuits.

Di Barnes is collecting suitable clothing for Dress for Success who provides a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women re-entering the workforce. Through the program, women from all walks of life can acquire thoughtfully curated clothing, shoes and accessories to create the best impression at job interviews. Women also receive career guidance, counselling and training. Donate your gently used, nearly-new professional attire. With your support, we can continue providing services that inspire women to take charge of their lives. Listen to Rotary Matters interview with Tanya Jackson-Vaughan, CEO of Dress for Success and also Sue Hayward, a past Rotary District Governor who explains the link between Rotary and Dress for Success and the development of pop up fashion stores. Here is an edited version of the program. Listen to the replay at:

https://soundcloud.com/user-410080704/empowering-women-to-achieve-economic-independence-dress-for-success-rotary-matters-17-april-2020?fbclid=IwAR3UozVuTMyzONeUxXjAl6E37_QmvHaOzE1vP88vkYNp0MtfcMQiLOrY38M

Christiane is collecting for Women’s Shelter and Wayside Chapel. "Any items unsuitable for the Women’s Shelter, Dress for Success or Wesley Gardens and will be donated to the Wayside Chapel. The Wayside Chapel assists homeless people and others on the margins of society. It is still accepting donations of clean, good condition adult clothing, towels and blankets. Other items that are accepted: New Men’s underwear – Medium and Large sizes preferred. New Women’s underwear – Size 10- 12 preferred. Bras – new or used but clean. Men’s and women’s socks of all sizes – new or used but clean”.

Russell shares the book her has just read

Revolution -by Peter Ackroyd

The history of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo.
“Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a 19^th century narrative historian and modern social analyst. Elements of this book seem very old-fashioned and formal – in a good way. Yet the author-eschews that attached third person preferred by stuffy professionals, favouring instead a more intimate “you” that brings the reader into the dark alleys of industrial towns to sniff the terrible smells of industrial England.” -The Times (London)

In this book Peter Ackroyd traces from William of Orange’s accession to when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III. England was at war with France – again – and that ended with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.

I enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s style of writing and his opinions of historical figures are often different to his contemporaries. His special expertise appears to be the cultural Revolution from when the Church of England became the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and Parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch.

You are welcome to borrow it and I have another good one to share next week.

Members are asked to consider sharing a book recommendation in The Waratah

Social isolation means more time for reading and that is a luxury!

Lest We Forget

A first for Rotarians this Anzac Day

Many of our club members, and indeed Friends of Rotary, commemorated Anzac Day in their driveway this year as part of a national initiative to engage with with each in a shared experience while living in isolation. It was a huge success and quite a memorable one. Below are some photos submitted by members. Top row left to right: Peter Lorschy holding a lighted candle,, Lyndall King with family holding medals in honour of her grandfather and mother, Barry and Di Barnes driveway wreath. Second row: Russell’s grandchildren, George playing the saxophone and the We had other members who observed this important event in their driveway, but do not have photos to share. Australians should be proud of their creative response to this challenge of being apart on this important day for Australia.

We can still celebrate ANZAC Dawn Service - we can be together in a shared experience while still in isolation - here's how we do it!

On 25 April Aussies across the nation attend the ANZAC Dawn Service. The decision to not hold it this year out of respect for the wellbeing of our ageing diggers and their families is understood. The young generation who are learning the tradition need a lesson from their elders. Here is the lesson we can give them, a little differently, but still meaningful.

The idea was first published in March on Facebook from an

ex Commanding Officer of 3 CER and since then has gained momentum and expanded.

Honour our ANZACS from our driveway – 2 options suggested:

Let's share a moment together. In isolation we can stand together. We can still show the Aussie spirit. Remember the tradition. The spirit of Australians can be flexible and adaptive. Individually we are one ,but we can stand together for values that matter. Heartfelt sentiment is powerful.

Social Media has never been more Important to people

What’s happening on Rotary Club of St Ives Facebook page?

Being on Facebook is purely a personal decision, but if you currently do not have a Facebook account, now might be a time to reconsider. It’s totally up to you as to how long you spend online and who you choose to accept in your friend network. It can be time-consuming or time managed to fit into your schedule.

Many on Facebook are finding it a useful way of keeping in touch with people, reading things that inspire them, make them laugh, make them feel connected and generally help with keeping a positive mental mindset. At a time when many in our community are feeling isolated or disconnected from family and community, Facebook provides both entertainment and information. You can subscribe to interest groups as well as follow the posting of friends. You can limit your account to only what your friends post or choose a more public profile.

Thought you might be interested to see some of the posts put up on Rotary Club of St Ives Facebook page in April. If you look closely at the bottom you can see how many people each post reached (at time of printing). We currently have 556 people who follow our Facebook page and this week we picked up one more follower. If you are interested to see what else has been published on our Facebook page go to: https://www.facebook.com/StIvesRotaryNSW/

Hopefully we all have a little more time at the moment and exploring social media, and Rotary Club of St Ives Facebook page in particular, might be useful.

What’s happening on St Ives Food and Wine Festival Facebook page?

This Facebook page profiles very differently than our Rotary Club. Postings tend to be reposts from other sites – closer to the event we create our own graphics to promote various sponsors and stallholders. Facebook Analytics generates data to help you understand what trends well on your Facebook and guides future posts. To see more postings and to follow this page visit: https://www.facebook.com/stivesfoodandwinefestival There are 1,251 peope who follow this Facebook page.

What book are you currently reading?

We might not be able to get together and have a meal and chat, but we can still share information with each other. What are you reading at the moment? What book have you read and can thoroughly recommend? I’ll kick it off with the book I’m reading 10% Human by Alanna Collen.

About the author: Dr Alanna Collen is a science writer with an Undergraduate Degree and Master’s Degree in biology from Imperial College London and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London. She is a well-travelled biologist and expert in bat echolocation and an accidental collector of tropical diseases.

About the book: Did you know we are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi.

Biologist Alanna Collen draws on the latest scientific research to show how our personal colony of microbes influences our weight, immune system, mental health, and general health. She argues that so many of our modern diseases - obesity, autism, mental illness, digestive disorders, allergies, autoimmune afflictions, and even cancer - have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our individual colony of microbes. The good news is that unlike our human cells, we can change our microbes for the better. Life - and your body - will never seem the same again. Many of the questions about modern diseases left unanswered by the Human Genome Project are illuminated by this new science. And the good news is that unlike our human cells, we can change our microbes for the better. Collen's book is a revelatory and indispensable guide. It is science writing at its most relevant: life - and your body -will never seem the same again. This book can be delivered to you for $20.81 through ordering online through Book Depository.

You can borrow my copy (from May) if you wish to – let me know. Thanks Di

Don't forget to organise your Bowelscan

Don’t forget to visit to buy your BowelCare Kit from your local Pharmacy. They are available NOW until 31 May 2020.

Lifeline fears funding-shortfalls as calls rise

Tony McClelland from the BOBBO Registration team forwarded this article by Jenny Noyes.

“Lifeline is bracing for a “bleak winter” as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hits home across Australia amid a shortfall in funds and fears local centres may be forced to close.

More than 90,000 Australians called the national suicide prevention service during March – up 25 per cent on the same month last year – and in the past three weeks more than 50 per cent of callers have been concerned about coronavirus.

Lifeline Australia chairman John Brogden said the unprecedented use of the hotline service amid the pandemic and in the wake of the bushfires, comes amid falling revenue and resources as traditional fundraising and volunteer avenues dry up.

While he welcomed the federal government’s recent announcement of a $5 million funding boost for the service, along with $6 million from the NSW government, Mr Brogden said federal money would be stretched thin across other states.

“With the closure of our 250 retail stores and the cancellation of mental health community training programs, book fairs, fundraising dinners and other events,” Mr Brogden said Lifeline had lost an ongoing funding source “overnight”.

He said his primary concern is keeping Lifeline centres open despite having “almost no revenue coming through the door” because they also provide Lifeline’s volunteer workforce.

“If our centres shut their doors, we lose hundreds of volunteers with every centre.”

Easter Greetings

Don't forget to take your daily dose of good medicine@

A special song for Wal Edwards

Thought you might like to check out this link and listen to Grahame and Marie sing a quick little song dedicated to our Wal Edwards.

Thanks for saying yes when asked to do this Grahame - hopefully Wal will get to hear it.

My personal thanks to Megan Tilley for her IT advice in converting the file for us. All you need to do is copy the link below and paste it into your URL ... or you could go to our Facebook page and just click on the link.

Enjoy everyone and keep smiling.

Yours in Rotary

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Toasting Wal Edwards and celebrating the 55th Anniversary of Rotary Club of St Ives

We can't get together to raise our glasses and toast Wal Edwards our foundation member of the Rotary Club of St Ives. Under the circumstances, as many of us that could, raised our glasses Wednesday (our normal meeting night) and toasted Wal. Here's the result of meeting in the virtual world. Rotary Club of St Ives has something to be thankful for - 55 years of Service Above Self and still having one of our foundation members still actively involved in our club.

LATEST VIDEO FROM DEMENTIA CHAMPION Tim England

Ask a Dementia Champion – Episode “Lewy Body Dementias, a brief discussion”. The late and great Robin Williams was suffering from this condition but no one knew. https://youtu.be/ZP15g-h5J_M

This is the third of 4 short episodes where we examine what are the main causes of dementia. This episode we introduce and discuss Lewy Body Dementias.. These dementias are surprisingly common but very few people have heard of them. In Australia the disease the 3rd leading cause of dementia in Australia.

Rotary Club of St Ives is 55 years old 27 March 2020

2020 BOBBO CANCELLED

Our Australian Government(s) announced a few days ago that events with mass non-essential gatherings of 500 or more are banned from this Monday 16^th. The Bobbin Head Cycle Classic committee met and has made the decision to cancel the 2020 event.

Breakfast Meeting this week - Wednesday 11 March

2020 Food and Wine Festival Meeting this week

The 2020 St Ives Food and Wine Festival team are meeting this coming Monday 9 March. Applications have been sent to all stallholders that we had last year and we will be accepting new applications for stalls based on those needed to give us the best possible balance and quality.

We ask anyone who might have a business lead that we can follow-up re sponsorship please let us know!

Have you seen Tim's Dementia Youtube?

Tim England has advised a second episode of Ask a Dementia Champion is available: “Dementia - physical changes to the human brain”. Click on the link below to see this YouTube Channel episode: https://youtu.be/OnutAyvNV54

In this episode he briefly discusses what are some of the physical changes to the human brain due to a dementia causing disease. Furthermore, discover how and why these changes cause a range of signs and symptoms that are often dismissed.

Bobbo Update

Volunteers still needed for the BOBBO on 29^th March
All four Clubs are down on volunteers with only three weeks to go. St Ives is doing “OK” as far as volunteers are concerned but even we are 19 down on last year. See the advertisement in this Waratah and contact John Waterhouse urgently! Volunteers who just require the briefing can meet at Lifeline at 7pm on 23March. Rider numbers stand at 1,854 at this stage which is also down a few compared to this time in 2019.

Harold Morgan thanked all those volunteers who filled and posted about 2,000+ BOBBO envelopes to competitors.

Lifeline Video a short 2 minute video to explain how fundraising by Bobbo riders can help Lifeline save lives. It is going out by email to all riders and on Facebook this week.

http://bit.ly/Bobbo_saves_lives it is really well done and worth distributing.

Looking forward to catching up with Anna te Velde on 25 March

Wednesday 25^th March we catch up with Anna te Velde at Avondale Golf Club for a two-course delicious dinner meeting for $35. Money was raised at the 2012-13 Changeover Dinner when Brendan Trewartha was concluding his year as president. That evening $13,000 was raised with generous support from Margaret Dean and other members and guests to make up the $33,000 needed by Australian Rotary Health to provide a Research Scholarship for a student to undertake a PhD. Anna te Velde is a research physiotherapist and PhD candidate with the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute and The University of Sydney. Her research focuses on mapping the early natural history and development of babies with cerebral palsy (CP) in order to answer parent’s questions about what their future holds. Anna is passionate about working globally in low and middle income countries. It will be great to hear what has happened since her 2019 update.

Wednesday 18 March - Club Bobbo Brief

Wednesday 18^th March is our Club BOBBO briefing at The St Ives Club. Being our usual Wednesday meeting we can look forward to a two-course delicious meal for $30. Harold will entertain us with his last minute instructions as well as answer any questions about the big day. The St Ives Team Leaders, Tim Wilson and Derek Molloy will be handing out volunteer bags at 8pm after our meal. It is important that members advise Rosemary if they cannot attend this evening or if they are bringing guests.

Volunteers who just want to collect their bag, and not have a meal, can come at 8.00pm. If they would like to come for the meal meeting they are welcome but it is important they let us know for catering purposes. RSVP if wanting to come for the meal too rcoucouvinis@gmail.com

Reflections on Mosaic talk by Frank Dobosi

At last week’s meeting on Wednesday 4^th March at Canisius, Frank Dobosi entertained us with his presentation on The History of Mosaics and examples of his own creations. Frank’s passion for this subject was obvious and we all enjoyed his explanations and illustrations. Apart from having a deep knowledge of the history of Mosaics and sharing some world famous examples we learned that Frank is also quite the artist! His mosaic of Elvis was instantly recognisable as too was his self-portrait. From the serious subject matter we were entertained also by his fun-loving samples inspired by Dr Seuss and life-like gnomes! Frank has skills as well as broad domain subject knowledge when it comes to mosaics.

Breakfast Meeting this week

Have you let John Waterhouse have your details?

Are you collecting stamps for us?

We're looking forward to our meeting this Wednesday!

Are you free to help Clean Up Australia - 1 March?

Don't miss our meeting on Wednesday 4 March

Reflections on our meeting last week

Have you registered as a Bobbo volunteer?

Australia needs our help

Time to go to the movies

Call for VOLUNTEERS for Sunday 29 March

Book NOW for Wednesday 16 February

On Wednesday 26^th February we welcome back our fantastical Prof Bhuvan Unhelkar to Avondale GC from the US of A where he will entertain and inform us with the topic, The Role of Rotary in Society.

Bhuvan is a speaker much in demand throughout the world and we are delighted and thankful that he is back at his old Club to keep us up to date on what is happening.

Looking forward to this Wednesday

Wednesday 19^th Feb a night to remember at Avondale GC with Patricia Garcia AO, a Rotary Peace Fellow.
In 2017 Patricia was awarded a Rotary Peace Fellowship.

She has had over 20 years’ experience working in the world’s conflicts including Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Bosnia and Burma. She has organised and managed humanitarian aid and development programs to assist refugees and is actively engaged in humanitarian advocacy.

Our Amazing Youth Programs

The Wednesday 12^th Feb Youth Night at Canisius House was a fantastic evening organised by Youth Director Lyndall King.

We watched and listened to skilful presentations from Kira Trahana who attended the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in Queensland, three of our four 2020 RYLA students, Isaac Biddle, Georgia Lowden & Mitchell Frater-Baird, and our recent RYPEN attendees in Zoe Taylor & Max Mandile reported on their experiences at these fantastic Rotary initiatives for training and introducing our youth and young adults to some of the best industry leaders and trainers available.

St Ives is extremely proud of our young representatives and we look forward to supporting further programs this year.

Time for Australia to heal - and we can help!

Our Club will continue to support those affected by the drought and bushfires. We invite members and friends to make tax deductible donations through our Trust account. We will let the experts and those on the ground select where to donate. However, rest assured that we will donate wherever we are advised support is needed.
“St Ives Rotary Charitable Trust” BSB: 633 000 - Account: 161 181 482
We will issue a receipt for all donations greater than $2 and forward 100% to either the Rotary Clubs of Australia Drought Appeal or the Bushfire Disaster Appeal.

Both these appeals are administered through Bendigo Bank and we selected them as 100% of the funds we contribute “go directly to the communities in need”.
Please advise Treasurer John Steel on jlsteel@optusnet.com.au which appeal you select.

VALE Ken Shields

We were sad to learn that a wonderful St Ives Rotarian in Ken Shields passed peacefully away last week, aged 92. Ken was President of St Ives in 1980-81, awarded a PHF in 1983, and represented our Club on numerous District and Community committees. Ken was a great persuader in getting Rotarians and our Council to try new things. For example, he was one of the instigators of the NYSF, various Student Exchange programs and several local community projects.

He and wife Noel (The Admiral) were involved in everything. He was also an enormous help to me personally when I changed occupations in the mid 80’s. Dinah and I are so sad in his passing and we send our sympathy and best wishes to his family personally, and on behalf of the Rotary Club of St Ives.

Family and friends are warmly invited to celebrate Ken’s life at 10.30am on Saturday 22nd February at Warriewood Brook Anglican Retirement Village Clubhouse, 6-14 Macpherson Street, Warriewood. In lieu of flowers, consider donation to Garvan Medical Research Institute.

Brilliant result at Bunnings BBQ last weekend!

HUGE ‘thankyous’ to Chief Organiser Harold Morgan, Assistant Organiser & Treasurer, John Steel, and to everyone who volunteered their services yesterday. While everyone did a magnificent job giving up a dry Saturday, we especially thank Tim England for his fantastic marketing posters display (again) and his double shift cooking and cleaning the BBQ. Grateful thanks to one and all.

Net profit was $1,595.70 which exceeded our previous effort by more than 50%!! Our first-all time use of the mobile EFTPOS machine was responsible for $113.00 worth of sales and a number of customers complimented us for having this facility available. The Donation bucket and EFT contributions received donations of $404.30 and so the total raised for the farmers will be $2,000 again!

Fabulous celebration of Rotary Youth Programs this week

This week our meeting has a focus on Rotary Youth which is always a fabulous evening! Visitors are always welcome and if you would like to learn more about Rotary Club of St Ives and our Youth Programs you are welcome to join us by depositing $35pp for your meal (with BYO) by Sunday 6pm into our club account, together with your name, or leave a message below and we will be in touch.
BANK DETAILS:
St Ives Rotary BSB: 633 000
Account: 161 181 334

Please ask your family and friends if they can help us

Breakfast Fellowship Meeting this Wednesday

Murray reinstates the '3 on Me'

Drought and Bushfire Donations

Our Club will continue to support those affected by the drought and bushfires. We invite members and friends to make tax deductible donations through our Trust account “St Ives Rotary Charitable Trust” BSB: 633 000 - Account: 161 181 482

We will issue a receipt for all donations greater than $2 and forward 100% to either the Rotary Clubs of Australia Drought Appeal or the Bushfire Disaster Appeal. Both these appeals are administered through Bendigo Bank and we selected them as 100% of the funds we contribute “go directly to the communities in need”. Please advise Treasurer John Steel on jlsteel@optusnet.com.au which appeal you select.

Come and be inspired!

Time to organise your friends to come to Rotary

Don't miss seeing Bhuvan when he's in Australia

Something to ponder

23 February is Rotary's 115th Birthday

What you need to know about the Attendance/Welcome Officer role

When is your turn?

What you need to know about the Sergeant-At-Arms role

Did you hear the radio interview last Friday? Find out more ...

Happy Australia Day - 26 January 2020

We celebrated the spirit of Australia Day on Wednesday 22 January at the Crofts Resort and had the most wonderful BBQ. Such a lovely way to catch up with each other and wear the colours of Australia! Happy long weekend everyone and enjoy the celebrations in Sydney on Sunday 26 January!

Happy Lunar New Year - 25 January 2020

Saturday 25 January 2020 marks the start of the Lunar New Year and 15 days of celebrations! It is a wonderful time to visit China Town or Chatswood and join in some of the many celebrations being held. You probably know there are 12 Chinese zodiac animals used to represent years, 2020 is the Year of the Rat. Zodiac signs play an integral part in Chinese culture, and can be used to determine your fortune for the year, marriage compatability, career fit, best times to have a baby, and so much more. A zodiac system has existed in Chinese culture since the Qin dynasty, more than 2,000 years ago.

The Rat is the first of all zodiac animals. According to one myth, the Jade Emperor said the order would be decided by the order in which they arrived to his party. The Rat tricked the Ox into giving him a ride. Then, just as they arrived at the finish line, Rat jumped down and landed ahead of Ox, becoming first. People born in the year of the Rat year are optimistic, energetic and likeable by all. They are sensitive to other’s emotion, but can be stubborn and not easily change their opinion. Their personality is kind, but due to weak communication skills, their words may seem impolite and rude. On the financial side, they like saving and can be stingy. However, their love for hoarding will sometimes cause them to waste money on unnecessary things.

THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL SUPPORT OF OUR BUNNINGS BBQ

Our BBQ on the Saturday after Christmas at Bunnings was hard work but a lot of fun and extremely successful. We were excited to donate $2,000 to the Rotary Clubs of Australia Drought Appeal. We had decided some time ago that the proceeds of this BBQ should be con tributed to the Drought Appeal (via the Bendigo Bank’s Charity Foundation). Our net profit on the day was $950 with $545 being contributed into the ‘Drought Bucket’ by shoppers. St Ives members and your Club donated the balance. Thank you so much to all our super volunteers plus our chief organisers, Harold Morgan and John Steel.

Photo left to right: Mat, Russell, Peter, John S and Tim

TREE OF JOY GIFTS DELIVERED

THANK YOU again to all our Tree of Joy volunteers! You were magnificent. All our Youth, past members, Friends of St Ives Rotary and Rotarians did a great job. Just before Christmas 1287 gifts were delivered to the many nursing homes and retirement villages on the North Shore by intrepid delivery volunteers. Well done everyone! We are no wondering what we can store in Harold's garage now that it is 'empty'. Check out our Facebook page for many more photos of the whole process - and a short video from our eldest member Wal (aged 103 years young) talking about the Tree of Joy. Such a huge project and would not be possible without the generosity of so many kind families our amazing community!

CONGRATULATIONS HAROLD

THE GORDON W. KING SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD

This year we were pleased and proud to present the 2019 Award to Harold Morgan for continually demonstrating continuous Service above Self through his development, promotion and planning many of our Clubs events and programs. The Bobbo, Food & Wine Festival, Tree of Joy and Bunnings BBQ (to name just a few events) would not be as successful without his planning. Thank you Harold.

CONGRATULATIONS LYNDALL

THE DAVID JAMES COMMUNITY AWARD GOES TO LYNDALL KING

David was a member of St Ives from 1983 and was heavily involved in Community and Youth projects.In memory of David his Award in 2019 went to our inimitable Lyndall King who works tirelessly on our Youth Projects and local community projects. Under Lyndall’s leadership, I believe our contribution and involvement in Rotary Youth projects is second to none in D9685. Well done and thank you Lyndall.

CHRISTMAS PARTY GRINNERS

On Wednesday 18^th December we celebrated our last meeting for 2019 with a wonderful evening of friendship with an excellent festive season Menu. In true form all members dressed in fabulous outfits and were ready for some fun ... but nobody had bigger smiles than the winners of our lucky door prizes - congratulations Megan, John W and Marie!

Everyone went home happy though after Santa came and delivered our Kris Kringle gifts!

Russell also took the opportunity to give an Honorary membership to Susie F!

Congratulations Susie and thank you for all the fabulous table decorations you made to brighten the occasion.

A PERSPECTIVE ON THE DROUGHT

THE GORDON KING SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD

THE DAVID JAMES AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

RYLA DINNER LAST WEEK

INTRODUCING OUR CLUB INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR

JANUARY IS VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH

RAWCS DONATIONS TO BUSHFIRE APPEAL

Rotarians wishing to make donations through Rotary for the devastating summer bushfires across our country can do so through a single Rotary National Bushfire Appeal entry on the RAWCS Home Page https://rawcs.org.au/

MERRY CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS PARTY TIME

BREAKFAST MEETING - 11 DECEMBER

BUNNINGS BBQ - 28 DECEMBER

CAN YOU HELP WITH ROAR AND SOAR?

YOU CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE

SEE YOU WEDNESDAY

REFLECTIONS ON FIRST WEEK OF TREE OF JOY

HAPPY 103RD BIRTHDAY WAL

CELEBRATING ROTARY YOUTH PROGRAMS

WHAT A WEEK!

HAPPY 103RD BIRTHDAY WAL ON 22 NOVEMBER

LOOK OUT FOR THE TREE OF JOY NEXT WEEK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAL

PHONE NOW TO GET YOUR TICKET

SEE US FOR YOUR CHIRISTMAS CAKE AND PUDDING

IMPRESSIVE GUEST SPEAKER DR MICHAEL BENDON

CAN YOU HELP US?

WONDERFUL WORK KYDS

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT NIGHT OUT

YOU MIGHT WANT TO BE PART OF THIS GREAT DAY!

IT IS THIS EASY TO HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE

ONE CHARITY WHO BENEFITS FROM THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

TREE OF JOY - SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

PUT IT IN YOUR DIARY - IMPORTANT EVENING 278 NOVEMBER

WE HAVE AN INTERACT CLUB AT ST IVES HIGH SCHOOL

WHY NOT ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS CAKE AND PUDDING AND SUPPORT LIONS CLUB

PROUD OF OUR ROTARY PROGRAMS SUPPORTING YOUTH

Rotarians from the Rotary Club of St Ives are proud of the opportunities we are creating for youth in our area through leadership programs such as RYLA. Read all about our latest candidate!

THIS WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER IS PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP AWARD NIGHT

We are all looking forward to Wednesday this week when we honour four amazing members of our community. Members are reminded to let Rosemary or John know if they are bringing guests to this special evening. Friends of Rotary are welcome to attend and need to make the $35 direct deposit to our club account and let us know you are coming.

WORLD POLIO DAY - 24 OCTOBER

On World Polio Day Thursday 24 October 2019, Rotary D9685 travelled across the entire Sydney train network. I joined DG Kalma and multiple DG’s from surrounding Districts from Gordon to Berowra and back again. About 50 people on the train while I was there. St Ives RC will donate $1,000 to the Foundation. There was $328 from “Ride like a Girl” and $250 from Members. The Club will only donate $422 from our accumulated funds.

JOIN US FOR BREAKFAST THIS WEDNESDAY!

FABULOUS NIGH LAST WEDNESDAY!

LOOKING FORWARD TO A FABULOUS SOCIAL NIGHT AT THE THEATRE

WE HAVE THE BEST VOLUNTEERS1

CONGRATULATIONS ST IVES HIGH SCHOOL

DON'T MISS THE TRAIN THIS THURSDAY!

PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP COMING UP SOO!

WE NEED STAMPS!

THIS LOOKS LIKE A WONDERFUL NIGHT!

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

FABULOUS GUEST SPEAKER LAST WEEK - THANK YOU PROFESSOR TOM SMITH

WORTH WATCHING - PROJECT DRAGON

BOOK YOUR THEATRE TICKETS TODAY

SEE YOU SATURDAY FOR THE BEST SAUSAGE SANDWICH!

CELEBRATING YEAR 9 LEARNING JOURNEY THIS WEEK

PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP NIGHT COMING SOON

OUR FIRST WONDERFUL RYLA CANDIDATE

HOPING FOR MORE STAMPS WITH THE CHRISTMAS SEASON

TIME TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO OUR MEETING NEXT WEEK

HOW'S YOUR STAMP COLLECTING GOING?

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

HEARTFELT MESSAGE

PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP NOMINATIONS OPEN TILL 10 OCTOBER

SUPPORTING ST IVES HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 9 PROGRAM

LUCKY DOOR PRIZE WINNERS

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

ROTARY THEME FOR OCTOBER ...

NEXT MEETING - 2 OCTOBER

MEMBERS please remember to let Rosemary know if you cannot attend our next meeting. Payment into club account is appreciated prior to meeting.

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK

CAN YOU VOLUNTEER ON 16 OCTOBER?

NOMINATIONS CLOSE SOON FOR PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP

KEEP THOSE STAMPS COMING

SOME GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR DISTRICT!

MEETING FOR BREAKFAST THIS WEEK

GET YOUR PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP NOMINATIONS IN

MOVIE PREVIEW 'RIDE LIKE A GIRL'

THANK YOU ADRIENNE MCLEAN

EVERYBODY LOVES A LUCKY DOOR PRIZE

WELCOME Matt Cross TO THE ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

2019 FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL RAFFLE WINNERS

News from District

Rotary Matters with Ian Stuart

Dad jokes are the best!

Keep those stamps coming!

Nominations open for Pride of Workmanship

Make your first stop Rotary Photo Booth

Train Ride to raise funds to End Polio

Good to catch with Jakob after his Australian holiday

Maritime Museum Guest Speaker Andrew Phippen

LOOK AT THE LIFESTYLE STALLS

WONDERFUL LIFESTYLE STALLS

FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL CORRESPONDENCE

PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP NOMINATIONS OPEN

POSITIVE THINKING

ROTARY MATTERS

NEED A NIGHT OUT?

GREAT NIGHT WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST

LOOKING FORWARD TO A BANQUET THIS WEDNESDAY

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

UPDATE ON ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

TIME FOR NOMINATIONS

DICK SMITH DOES IT AGAIN

Wonderful work of KYDS

FWF team meeting this Tuesday

Board Meeting this week

Slight change this week ...

Check 4 September is in your diary

Reflections on KYDS presentation

Hornsby Ku-ring-gi Rotaract Club News

Pride of Workmanship Nominations Open

We need your help to help Legacy!

Food and Wine Festival update

YOU ARE INVITED!

TUNE IN TO TRIPLE H

Looking forward to Rotary this week

When did you last check our website?

Thank you Daryl Coleman

Thank you for visiting us District Governor Kalma McLellan

Please check the duty roster for August

Congratulations Grace and thank you for the invitation

Help needed for Promotion of St Ives Food and Wine Festival

Pride of Workmanship Awards - Nominations now open

Check your emails - your copy of The Waratah has been sent

Diabetes Fundraiser

Wednesday 7 August - Invite your family and friends

Invite your friends!

Great night this Wednesday!

Save the date and share the date

ARE YOU GOING TO THIS WONDERFUL NIGHT?

ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL FLYER

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK PAGES

KEEP SAVING THOSE STAMPS

THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL GOLD SPONSORS FOR THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

THANK YOU TO OUR BRONZE SPONSORS FOR SUPPORTING THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

IT TAKES A GREAT TEAM TO DO GREAT THINGS

CHECK YOUR DIARY!

YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS OUR MEETING THIS WEEK

ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENT RETURNS

INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBER

GOOD NEWS FROM Tim England

SHARE THE GREAT NEWS

MAKE SURE YOU LIKE OUR FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL FACEBOOK

HAVE YOU CHECKED OUR FACEBOOK PAGE?

KEEP THOSE STAMPS COMING!

CHECK YOUR EMAILS FOR THE LATEST COPY OF The Waratah

WELCOME

D'CAF

2019-2020 ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES BOARD

DON'T MISS THIS WEEK

DEMENTIA RESEARCH

MEMORIES OF MUNA

THANKS FROM MARCEL

AWESOME AVONDALE

WAL'S WISDOM

A FEW WORDS FFROM PRESIDENT HAROLD

A FEW WORDS FROM PRESIDENT RUSSELL

THANK YOU AWARDS

VISION FOR THE YEAR AHED

LAUGHTER AND FUN ARE GOOD FOR US - AND ROTARY!

THANK YOU RUSSELL AND DINAH

WHY A ROTARY BELL/

DISTRICT 9685 NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS

VOLUNTEERS TO HELP/

CHECK OUR MONTHLY DUTY ROSTER

REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEEK

DISTRICT 9685

THINKING OF YOU MARCEL

INTERNATIONAL HELP

D'CAF UPDATE

COUNT DOWN TO 8 SEPTEMBER 2019

HAVE YOU LIKED US?

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT

ROTARY MATTERS

GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY

GET YOUR SNAG THIS SUNDAY!

SEE YOU WEDNESDAY

FAB FOOD AND FUN LAST WEEK

YOU CAN HELP US !

THANK YOU ROB

WE'RE STILL COLLECTING STAMPS!

YOUR ROTARY DOWN UNDER MAG HAS ARRIVED

OUR MEETING THIS WEEK

ROTARIANS ARE ALL ROTARY AMBASSADORS

COMMUNITY NEWS

LET LYNDALL KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP

GET OUT YOUR ROTARY APRON AND CAP

CHECK OUT OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES

KEEP COLLECTING

BIG SMILES

WE WELCOME A NEW ROTARIAN - REG BELL

LIFELINE THANKS OUR VOLUNTEERS

REFLECTIONS ON OUR SPEAKER ANNA TE VELDE

MEET OUR AUSTRALIAN ROTARY HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE - ANNA TE VELDE

OUR GUEST SPEAKER MEETING THIS WEEK

ST IVES ROTARIANS HELPING LIFELINE BOOKFAIR

BOBBO DONATIONS TO CHARITIES

ROTARIANS CELEBRATION BOBBO RESULTS

SPECIAL THANKS TO BOBBO SPONSORS

DID YOU KNOW JUNE IS FELLOWSHIP MONTH?

CONGRATULATIONS

ROTARIANS HELP TO MAKE A DIFFEENCE

ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES BOARD MEETS THIS WEDNESDAY

CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR THE WARATAH

BIG NIGHT THIS WEDNESDAY

THANK YOU GEORGE!

LOOKING FORWARD TO MUNA NEXT WEEKEND

OPPORTUNITY FOR SCIENCE ENRICHMENT

YOUTH LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

BOOKFAIR FOR LIFELINE NEXT WEEKEND

TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO GET YOUR BOWEL KIT

DON'T FORGET TO SAVE THOSE STAMPS

THANK YOU SES MEMBERS

WEAR A TOUCH OF ORANGE TO OUR MEETING TONIGHT!

DON'T MISS OUR ROTARY MEETING THIS WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD TO 15-16 JUNE

SPONSORING SCIENCE FORUM FOR YOUTH

CALLING 14-16 YEAR OLDS - RYPEN OPPORTUNITY

HAPPY TO BE HELPING

ONLY A FEW WEEKS LEFT IN MAY!

STILL ASKING FOR YOUR OLD STAMPS

SUPPORT ROTARY DISASTER RELIEF

GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IS OUR ROTARY DISTRICT

THIS WEEK - WEDNESDAY 15 MAY 2019

SUPPORT NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM

DO YOU KNOW ANY TEENS WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED?

MUNA CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS

REFLECTIONS ON MEETING LAST WEEK - WEDNESDAY 8 MAY

Our guest speaker Dr Sandra Meihubers was wonderful last Wednesday - truly inspirational to learn about Remote Oral Health Care and the great work she is doing that is supported by Rotary

ATTENTION YEAR 11 STUDENTS

Rotary Club of St Ives will sponsor a Year 11 student to attend the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra.

While in Canberra participants will experience 12 days of STEM related activities, designed to encourage them to continue to study in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). This is a unique opportunity and interested students should apply online at: www.mysf.edu.au

TIME TO LET TEENAGERS KNOW ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY

FOUR MONTHS TILL THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

OUR ROTARY MEETING THIS WEEK

REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEDNESDAY

TAKE CARE THIS WEEK AND EVERY WEEK

ANY MORE VOLUNTEERS FOR BOOKFAIR?

HAVE YOU OT YOUR KIT YET?

UPDATE ABOUT THE BILBIES

INTERESTED IN THE WAFFLERS?

OUR HERO - WAL EDWARDS

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR USED STAMPS?

LEARN MORE ABOUT WHY ROTARY MATTERS

NEWS FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL USA

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SEEING VIVID?

WHY DID YOU JOIN ROTARY?

BOWEL SCREEN KITS AVAILABLE AT LOCAL PHARMACIES TILL END OF MAY

HELPING LOCAL YOUTH!

ONE CLICK IS ALL IT TAKES TO VOTE FOR DEMENTIA INITIATIVE TO VOTE FOR BENDIGO BANK CAL CHARITIES GRANT

A CLICK OF A BUTTON TO VOTE FOR DEMENTIA GRANT

D'CAF OPENING IN ST IVES!

MAY IS ROTARY YOUTH SERVICES MONTH

INSPIRING RESEARCH

WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND SOME WEEKEND TIME 15-16 JUNE

WE STILL NEED SOME HELPERS

USED STAMPS NEEDED

WONDERFUL SUPPORT FROM THORNLEIGH STORAGE KING!

ARE YOU JOINING US FOR THE MUNA WEEKEND?

DON'T MISS ROTARY THIS WEEK

REMEMBER TO BE MINDFUL

MAKING MUSIC ... THANK YOU GRACE!

FABULOUS NEWS

SOMETHING TO SHARE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP?

TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO GET YOUR KIT

WE NEED USED STAMPS - YOU CAN HELP!

TO ALL OUR FRIENDS NEAR AND FAR ...

DON'T MISS OUR MEETING WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL

HAVING SOME FUN AT ROTARY THIS WEEK

CHECK THE DATE FOR DEMENTIA SESSION

CAN YOU GIVE SOME TIME TO SUPPORT MUNA?

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

HAVE YOU PURCHASED YOUR KIT YET?

DON'T FORGET TO KEEP SAVING YOUR SAMPS

CHECK YOUR DIARY AND BOOK TODAY FOR 28 APRIL

WORKING TOWARD A DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COMMUNITY

JOIN US FOR BREAKFAST WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL

BOBBO 2019

GIVE US A HAND WITH MUNA

WE NEED YOUR HELP

TIME TO HAVE A BOWEL CANCER TEST

CAN YOU SAVE YOUR POSTAGE STAMPS FOR US?

REMEMBER TO TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK

TAKE A LOOK AT AN ONLINE ROTARY CLUB

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU SEE?

A FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR YEAR 11 STUDENTS

DON'T MISS THIS WEEK'S GUEST SPEAKER

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WAFFLERS?

2019 BOBBO WAS AN AMAZING DAY

WE GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS

MEET SOME OF THE BOBBO RIDERS

WELL DONE TO OUR MARSHALLING TEAM LEADERS

THE VIP HOSPITALITY TEAM

THE BBQ KING TEAM DOES IT AGAIN

WHAT A FINISH!

RIDING FOR A CAUSE

82 ROVER SCOUTS ORGANISE A BOBBO TEAM

THE 8TH BOBBO ANOTHER HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EVENT

GREAT SERGEANT SESSION AT OUR MEETING LAST WEEK!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 15-16 JUNE

SAVE THE DATE - SATURDAY 25 MAY

WE NEED YOUR HELP - 31 MAY

SAVE STAMPS OFF YOUR ENVELOPES FOR ROTARY

ROTARY SUPPORTING YOUTH FROM ABBOTSLEIGH, BARKER AND BRIGIDINE COLLEGES

LOOK WHATS HAPPENING AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES THIS WEEK

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT ST IVES ROTARY THIS WEEK

LOOKING FORWARD TO BOBBO NEXT SUNDAY

HAVING FUN AND RAISING FUNDS BOLLYWOOD STYLE

NO MORE GRAFFITI FOR ST IVES

NO MORE GRAFFITI FOR ST IVES!

SHARE THE NEWS ABOUT THE D'CAFE

A great program supported by the Rotary Club of St Ives

BUY YOUR ENTERTAINMENT BOOK NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

JOIN US AT MUNA

JOIN US FOR A GREAT WEEKEND AT MUNA

FUND RAISER FOR INSULIN PUMP

CHECK YOUR DIARY AND LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP OUT

DON'T FORGET TO SAVE YOUR USED STAMPS

DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COMMUNITY UPDATE

Check out the latest video from D'Cafe - making a difference in our community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uid8ChcEOo8

IT'S A BIG WEEK AT ST IVES ROTARY

REFLECTIONS WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH

TIME TO ORDER YOUR ENTERTAINMENT BOOK

IT'S ROTARACT WEEK !

SAVE THE DATE: 25 MAY

ANY STAMPS ON YOUR MAIL?

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

ROTARY LEADERSHIP COURSES COMING UP

MEET CHILDREN'S AUTHOR JACQUELINE HARVEY

MEET UTE VISITING ROTARY FROM GERMANY

It is always special when we have visiting Rotarians come to our club. It is extra when those visiting Rotarians are from as far away as Germany and indeed come back a second time to visit St Ives. We welcomed Rotarian Ute Scholle from Dusseldorf Rotary Club and her daughter Silvia to a meeting at The St Ives Club last Wednesday 16 January 2019. In addition to exchanging banners with our President Russell Crofts, it was fascinating to hear about her Rotary Club. Dusseldorf Rotary Club is a much larger club that ours and has about 55–65 members. We learned something of their meeting structure and how they assist charities and the community. Perhaps the biggest difference between their club and ours is how they organise their weekly meetings with payment for the meal being paid upfront at the beginning of the year. Whether you come to the meeting or not you have paid for your meal for the year and there are no refunds if you cannot attend. Little wonder they have such high attendance records! Ute will return home but says she will be back next year to visit her daughter and hopes to have time to visit our club again.

2019 RYLA DINNER

The Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) is a week-long residential personal development program for young people aged 19 to 25. The Rotary Club of St Ives delighted to sponsor three outstanding young people to the 2019 camp ... Josh Lorschy, David Best and Hugh Percival. The RYLA celebration dinner was held this week and a wonderful night was had by all.

FABULOUS - FUN - FESTIVE - FELLOWSHIP

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NUTCOTE AND MAY GIBS?

ROTARY SUPPORTING YOUTH

OUR WONDERFUL WAL

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PARKING FOR TREE OF JOY

INCLUSION SPORTS DAY

CELEBRATION TIME THIS WEEK

PHOTOS THAT INSPIRE

WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?

You may have followed the media discussion this past week about whether onions should be on top of the sausage or underneath the sausage! Social media has a way of getting people talking! Whether you care about onions on your BBQ sausage or not this week showed just how powerful social media can be to engage people!! To capitalise on the promotion of Rotary BBQs at Bunnings this is what was posted on Rotary Club of St Ives Facebook page:

BOBBO IS BACK - SUNDAY 24 MARCH 2019

TIME FOR KIDS TO ROAR AND SOAR

INCLUSIONS SPORTS DAY

BEING PART OF TREE OF JOY IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY!

DEMENTIA CAFE'S SIX WEEK PILOT PROGRAMME

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DROP IN TO D-CAF AT PCYC ON THURSDAYS BETWEN 10AM - 12 NOON

We are very much looking forward to having some feedback about the six week pilot program called D-Caf being held on Thursdays between10.00am - 12 noon at PCYC.

Tim, Fiona and team have been working hard to make this wonderful initiative a reality.

Great tubes happen when people with great passion share great ideas!

DEMENTIA PROGRAM UPDATE

FOCUS ON TEACHERS IN ST IVES SCHOOLS

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2018

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VISIT TO CROMEHURST COTTAGE LINDFIELD

YOUTH NIGHT

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WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER – ROTARY YOUTH NIGHT

This week we are delighted to meet the students we are sponsoring for Rotary Youth programs through District 9685 and to hear a little more about the various programs offered to youth through our District. Thanks to Lyndall for registering and coordinating the candidates for these events:

RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program of ENrichment) is an amazing opportunity for young people aged 14 – 16 years to attend a weekend camp designed to develop their potential, self-respect, confidence, leadership, and other life skills.

Rotary Club of St Ives Is sponsoring:

Kathy Kim St Ives High School
Suane Bloem St Ives High School
Zoe Evans Turramurra High School
For more information https://rotarydistrict9685.org.au/committee/rypen-1
Rotary Club of St Ives is sponsoring:

Daniel MacNamara
Amy Wang
For more information: https://www.nysf.edu.au
The ConocoPhillips Science Experience is a fun 3 days of science activities for Year 9 and Year 10 students. St Ives Rotary Club is sponsoring two students who have been suggested by teacher Skye Wacher

Fiona Tucker – Brigidine College
Courtney Wilkinson – Brigidine College
For more information: https://www.scienceexperience.com.au
Rotary Youth Leadership Award is a transformational leadership program designed for young adults 18 to 27 and is held at the Conference Centre at Elanora Heights.
The St Ives Rotary Club is sponsoring:
- Josh Lorschy
- Hugh Percival
  For more information: https://rotarydistrict9685.org.au/committee/ryla-1

Wednesday is an opportunity to hear from the candidates. Congratulations to all students attending these events and to our Youth Director, Lyndall for coordinating the registrations.

APPLES FOR ST IVES TEACHERS

DON'T MISS THE LAST DEMENTIA SESSION FOR 2018

2018 MELBOURNE CUP CELEBRATION

CATCH UP WITH BHUVAN IF YOU MISSED HIM

2018 TREE OF JOY

ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS CAKE AND PLUMB PUDDING

ACTIVATE INCLUSION DAY

SOAR AND ROAR FESTIVAL

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

EVERY DAY IS A GIFT - THAT'S WHY WE CALL IT THE PRESENT

Diabetes Insulin Pump Program

We are proud of our member John Waterhouse who leads the Insulin Pump Program seeing children from disadvantaged backgrounds being given an insulin pump to help change their lives for the better!

DEMENTIA UPDATE

TREE OF JOY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Have you signed up for the Tree of Joy yet? Lyndall is already up to version 3 for the roster for the Tree of Joy and we still have lots of spaces available for you to sign up. Thanks to everyone who has already put their name into a time slot. The spirit of Christmas is alive and well with this project!

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS FOR SOAR AND ROAR - 9 DECEMBER

WE HAVE ALL THE VOLUNTEERS WE NEED FOR SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 SOAR AND ROAR FESTIVAL

The Special Olympics Australia Soar and Roar Festival is a unique event providing people with an intellectual disability the opportunity to experience the thrill of a Dream Ride in a luxury car. St Ives Rotary Club has agreed to provide 6 volunteers on Sunday December 9 at Bobbin Head 6.00am – 8.30am. Duties will include registration, directing vehicles and supplying a BBQ breakfast for drivers and athletes (40-50 people). The Corvette Car Club will then leave from Bobbin Head with its Special Olympic passengers and drive to the Sydney Motorway where motor clubs from all over Sydney will meet for a lap of honour. Athletes and other people with an intellectual disability have the chance to experience the thrill of riding in a luxury or classic car to Sydney Motorpark for a lap of honour around the track.

Location is Bobbin Head 6.00am to 8.30am for St Ives Rotary Club to direct vehicles and prepare a BBQ breakfast for drivers and their passengers.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR INCLUSION DAY 3 DECEMBER

DEMENTIA UPDATE

MAKE A DIARY NOTE - VISIT TO CROMEHURST FOUNDAITON

BLOCKCHAINS AND BITCOINS EXPLAINED

MELBOURNE CUP MEETING

A VERY SPECIAL GUEST THIS WEEK!

FUN NIGHT LAST WEDNESDAY!

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER

FREE CONCERT AT WAHROONGA

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR MONOPOLY GAME YET?

HOW WE CAN HELP WITH THE INVICTUS GAMES

COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

FUN NIGHT WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER

LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS WEEK

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO BOOK

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - CHECK YOUR DIARY

OUR WONDERFUL WAL

CONGRATULATIONS

THE STEELS CATCH UP WITH FORMER ROTARY EXCHANGE STUDENT

COME LISTEN TO THE RIVETTS SING

SPECIAL OUTING THIS WEEK - WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER

FREE WORKSHOP FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARER

ATTENTION PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARERS
The Art and Object Engagement Program, which is a FREE program for people living at home with dementia.

For quite some time the Art Gallery and the Australian History Museum at Macquarie University have been running a program for people living with dementia in group living situations which has been very successful. Recently we have been given funding to allow us to offer this service to people living at home with dementia and their carers.

There are still places available and they are inviting carers and the people they care for to come along to the Art Gallery at Macquarie University and have a tour of the exhibition, a discussion about objects of social history and a cup of tea.

These sessions are offered free of charge and can be booked at the link below or by calling or emailing either the Art Gallery or the Australian History Museum at Macquarie University. 9850 8870

Please note that 1 ticket is for 2 people (both participant and carer).

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=428582&

YOUR EARLY BOOKING IS REQUESTED

Additional information on Professor Ralph Martins:

https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/medical-and-health-sciences/our-research/centre-of-excellence-for-alzheimers-disease- research-and-care/researchers/profiles/director/professor-ralph-martins-ao

https://www.ecu.edu.au/professorial-recruitment/professor-ralph-martins-ao https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=208 https://alzheimers.com.au/lecture-professor-ralph-martins/

EDUCATING FOR ETHICS

MORE PICS FROM THE FOOD AND WNE FESTIVAL

CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU

Dementia Sessions UPDATE

DON'T MISS THIS WEEK!

NEXT DEMENTIA SESSION - MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

GREAT FAMILY EVENT

OPEN DAY - SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER! Kids will love the interactive displays: Fire Drill & Over-run Demonstration; Tanker and equipment demonstrations; Ku-ring-gai Kids Fire Unit; Fire extinguisher demonstrations; Bushfire safety advice & Hazard reduction talks; SES Rescue Truck and Flood Rescue Boat; Chainsaw demonstrations; Hands on First Aid; Meet the SES mascot “Paddy the Platypus”; Enjoy a sausage sizzle at our fund-raiser BBQ.

THANK YOU ST IVES COMMUNITY

COUNTDOWN TO OUR MAJOR FUND RAISING EVENT

REMINDERS ABOUT THE ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

ALL ROTARIANS NEEDED FOR OUR MEETING THIS WEEK

IMPORTANT DEMENTIA MEETING THIS MONDAY

LOVING OUR LIFESTYLE STALLS AT THE ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

TULLOCH WINES WILL BE AT THE ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

MR BAO FOOD STALL

THANK YOU TO OUR BRONZE SPONSORS

ROTARIANS ARE THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BBQ

BE THE INSPIRATION

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FOUR-WAY TEST

SUPPORTING OUR FARMERS

REFLECTIONS ON DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

DROUGHT SUPPORT

HOW ARE THE RAFFLE TICKET SALES GOING?

Remember to bring your raffle ticket money and butts along to our meeting this week. With three weeks to go we are trying to get members tickets and money back so that we have an idea of how the raffle sales are going ... every ticket sold is profit to us so it's meaningful to the final fundraising result to get as many sold as possible. Don't forget to let your family and friends also know about the online raffle ticket sales that can be shared through our social media connections - see details below:

And here are some the amazing prizes to be won ... you could be one of our lucky winners, but you have to be in it to win it!

THE ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE ARE MEETING TUESDAY 21 AUGUST

Many more hours of organising are needed between now and Sunday 9 September. The festival team continues the work that has been going on for many months and in these final weeks the checklists of details gets longer leading up to the event. Truth is that EVERY MEMBER is part of the festival team and does their bit to bring our major fundraising event together. This year we are hopeful of a larger crowd than previous years and with everyone sharing their excitement about the event, selling raffle tickets and and sharing our flyer it's sure to be so!

WHAT DOES RDU STAND FOR?

BE THE INSPIRATION

MAYBE THEY ARE NOT SO MAD!

THE POWER OF THINKING POSITIVELY

ADD A LITTLE SPICE TO YOUR LIFE

HOW YOU CAN HELP WITH THE ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

DEMENTIA UPDATE

COMMUNITY SERVICE REPORT ON LAST WEEKS SPEAKER

ROTARIANS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

ACKNOWLEDGING OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS FOR THE ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

COUNTDOWN - 25 DAYS TO ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

HERE IS WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP OUR FARMERS

GREETINGS TO ALL OUR INDIAN FRIENDS IN ROTARY

WORDS TO INSPIRE

LEARNING MORE ABOUT ROTARY

ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL UPDATE

NEED A LOAN - SEE NBS HOME LOANS - ONE OF OUR ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL SPONSORS

HAVE YOU GOT A DIRTY OVEN?

HUNTER BELLE WILL BE AT THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

BRIAR ROSE WINS ANOTHER AWARD

SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL - ST IVES HIGH

LOOK WHO IS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

OUR ROTARY MEETING THIS W EEK

REFLECTIONS ON BREAKFAST LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEEK

DEMENTIA UPDATE

FWF UPDATE

FOCUS ON GOLD SPONSOR HORNSBY BMW

FOCUS ON FOOD STALL - DELI HUB

FOCUS ON LIFESTYLE STALL - PET CONNECTION

FOCUS ON WINE STALL - PETERSON'S HOUSE

WHAT DOE PP MEAN?

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK

THANK YOU PETER LORSCHY

THE SAN FUN RUN

DROUGHT RELIEF

Inspirational Quote from Greg

ROTARY THIS WEEK - 1 AUGUST 2018

OUR INSPIRING ROTARIAN THIS WEEK

ROTARIANS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

UNDERSTANDING ROTARACT

UPDATING OUR DEMENTIA PROJECT

OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE 1.2 MILLION TREES

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 25 JULY

OUR MEETING THIS WEEK

ANYONE INTERESTED IN FORMING A TEAM FOR THE SAN FUN RUN?

ST IVES FOOD AND WINE REMINDERS

SAVE THE DATE - SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER

NICE THINGS HAPPEN AT OUR CLUB MEETINGS

YELLOW SOCKS?

DEMENTIA SESSIONS NEXT WEEK

THE INSULIN PUMP PROJECT UPDATE

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 18 JULY 2018

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

Please share this date with your family and friends

ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL FLYER FOR 2018

Get out your diary and make sure the St Ives Rotary Food and Wine Festival on 9 September is in your diary! Another fabulous event for the community and our major fundraising event for 2018! Share the excitement as we launch our event and start our promotion campaign by talking about it with your family and friends.

ST IVES ROTARY FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL SPONSORS

We are so grateful to these AMAZING sponsors for supporting our St Ives Rotary Food and Wine Festival on Sunday 9 September on the beautiful St Ives Village Green between 10am - 4pm.

MORE DEMENTIA SESSIONS COMUNG UP

THIS WEEK: WEDNESDAY 18 JULY

REFLECTIONS ON MEETING LAST WEEK

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK

SES TRIVIA - 28 JULY

ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL UPDATE

SEE YOU FOR BREAKFAST THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

ROTARY TRIVIA FOR NEW MEMBERS

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK

NOMINATE SOMEONE

BE THE INSPIRATION - INSPIRING WORDS

LAST WEEK AT ROTARY

CHECK YOUR LETTERBOX!

Your copy of Rotary Downunder will be delivered toy this week. Always a special to ready the latest news!

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

RECIPIENTS OF A PAUL HARRIS AWARD

CONGRATULATIONS ON RECEIVING A PAUL HARRIS AWARD GO TO JOHN WATERHOUSE FOR YOUR WORK ON DIABETES INSULIN PUMPS FOR KIDS AND TO TIM ENGLAND FOR YOUR WORK ON DEMENTIA INFORMATION SESSIONS!!

CONGRATULATIONS LYNDALL ON RECEIVING THE CLUB OSCAR AWARD

THE TWO PRESIDENTS

The natural warmth and humour between our two Presidents is very evident in all their communications. There is no doubt that it won’t be a year where they are sharing the commitment to the club 50-50! They are two individuals who know no other way than to give 100% all the time. We can look forward to a year where the synergy of these two individuals will make a big difference to our club.

HUMOUR FROM RUSSELL AND WORDS OF WISDOM FROM WAL

MEMBERS MINGLING AND MAKING THE MOST MARVELLOUS MONTAGE OF MATESHIP

MOST BUT NOT ALL OF OUR PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS

KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH OUR ALUMNI

WELCOMING A NEW MEMBER TO ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

TRIVIA ANYONE?

BREAKING NEWS ...

Pleased to announce the first blog post has been published and you can see it here: https://www.stivesfoodandwine.com/blog/our-first-blog-post-see-saw-wine

Remember to help with our promotions by sharing this information with your friends!

THIS WEEK IS ANOTHER GREAT WEEK!

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK

GREAT BREAKFAST MEETING WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE

Our breakfast meetings are proving to be an interesting and positive addition to our Rotary month. This week we visited CLIQ, a relatively new cafe in the St Ives Shopping Village. Idan is the owner and has come from the eastern suburbs to St Ives. He and his team has created a vibrant and trendy cafe space in St Ives serving good quality food with a genuinely warm enthusiasm for what they do. We were not disappointed with the eggs, mushrooms, avocado and coffee we enjoyed on Wednesday. Many of us look forward to going back to CLIQ to try their lunch or dinner menu!

THINKING OF OUR ROTARIANS THIS WEEK

CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK

UPDATING OUR DIABETES PROJECT

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 6 MAY

CELEBRATING YOUTH LEADERSHIP

BREAKFAST THIS WEEK

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A NIGHT OF CELEBRATION - WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE

THIS WEEK 6 JUNE 2018

THANK YOU ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

RELECTIONS ON CUAN MCLEAN

NEWS FROM FORMER MEMBER DIANA STEWART

CHECK YOUR LETTERBOX!

IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK!

RED SHIELD APPEAL THIS WEEKEND

ARE YOU JOINING US FOR THE DIABETES ALIVE EVENING?

NEW MILESTONES FOR THE DEMENTIA PROJECT

REFLECTIONS ON THE MUNA WEEKEND 19-20 MAY

YOUTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS

AND THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE!

HAVE YOU BEEN TO ONE OF OUR DEMENTIA SESSIONS YET?

A THANK YOU FROM A SPECIAL LADY

REFLECTIONS ON THE BOBBIN HEAD CYCLE CLASSIC DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS

OUR MEETING THIS WEEK IS WEDNESDAY 30 MAY AT CANISIUS

DI BARNES TALKS ABOUT THE ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES ON RADIO TRIPLE H

Last Monday Di Barnes was interviewed by Greg and Adrienne on the Monday Focus community radio Triple H about the projects organised by the Rotary Club of St Ives ... you can hear that interview at:

https://soundcloud.com/adrienne-mclean/tim-england-st-ives-rotary-speaking-on-monday-focus-14th-may-18

TIM ENGLAND SPEAKS ABOUT DEMENTIA TO TRIPLE H RADIO

Last Monday Tim England was interviewed by Greg and Adrienne on the Monday Focus program of Community Radio Triple H ... listen to the interview here:

https://soundcloud.com/adrienne-mclean/tim-england-st-ives-rotary-speaking-on-monday-focus-14th-may-18

ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES WELCOMES FOUR NEW WONDERFUL MEMBERS THIS WEEK!

PHILIPPINES AUSTRALIA FRIENDSHIP DAY

THE MAGIC OF MUNA!

FREE DEMENTIA SESSION 21 MAY

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FRIDAY 25 MAY?

WE'RE COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING RED SHIELD APPEAL

INVITATION FROM PCYC

DIABETES ALIVE THANK YOU EVENING

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR KIT YET?

SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NIGHT!

CONGRATULATIONS SHELTER BOX

RADIO INTERVIEW ON TRIPLE H

MAY EDITION OF ROTARY DOWN UNDER

ROTARY THIS WEEK

WONDERFUL VISIT TO COMMUNITY RADIO STATION FM99.3

MAKE SURE THESE DATES ARE IN YOUR DIARY

REFLECTIONS ON DISTICT ASSEMBLY

FREE DEMENTIA SEMINARS COMING UP

IT WAS A LUCKY DAY FOR THE ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES 30 YEARS AGO TODAY!

MAY IS A SPECIAL MONTH AT ROTARY!

LET BRUCE KNOW IF YOU'RE COMING THIS WEDNESDAY!

YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE END OF MAY!

We will remember them ...

YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED NOW FOR OUR MEETING NEXT WEEK

Our meeting day next week is Friday morning breakfast ... make sure you register online to reserve your place ... and remember to invite your friends to attend this interesting event.

HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING THE EASTER BREAK

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE TO OTHERS

This is what Rotary is all about! The Bobbin Head Cycle Classic - bringing community together for a good time, helping others in the process and while making a positive difference in our local community.

If you would like to join us and share the fun just leave your contact details below or do a private message and we'll get back to you. We're just ordinary people but together we support each other to make extraordinary things happen!

WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH 2018

'Top of the morning to you' from 'Top of the Green'!
Our Rotary breakfast meeting Wednesday at St Ives Shopping Village was a huge success. Adding variations to our meeting venues to see what we can do to raise the profile of our club and to help support local business in the process. Thanks to owner Chris and his team for making sure we were well fed ... fabulous breakfast.

What a wonderful way to start the day!

ROTARY THIS WEEK

PROUD OF OUR ROTARY FOUNDATION!

NEXT DEMENTIA SESSION MONDAY 26 MARCH

WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO VOLUNTEER?

REFLECTIONS ON OUR MEETING LAST WEEK ...

WE HEAR YOU AND WANT TO HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Posted on Feb 26, 2018

FREE public education events about dementia - Tuesday 13th March and Monday 26th March.

Book today – limited seats are still available.

Called – “The FACTS about Dementia”, these essential community events are hosted by the Rotary Club of St Ives and are open to all and are ideal for carers and families of people-living-with-dementia or anyone who wishes to gain practical knowledge and understanding about dementia.

The next four sessions are available on Tuesday 13th March (starting at 12.30pm and 3.00pm), and Monday 26th March (starting at 12.30pm and 3.00pm).

Each session is in a comfortable venue at Peter Canisius House at Pymble, and we use simple, non-technical language and encourage audience questions and open discussion.
We cover;

• what dementia is and equally important what dementia is not,
• Prevention of dementia,
• how to create a Dementia-Friendly Community,
• step’s to access local support services.

All participants received an information pack to take home.

Direct call on 0406 764 340 or clink on the link below

Tuesday 13th March – (12.30pm-2.00pm) - www.trybooking.com/TXRK

Tuesday 13th March – (3.00pm-4.30pm) - www.trybooking.com/TXRL

Monday 26th March – (12.30pm-2.00pm) - www.trybooking.com/TXRQ

Monday 26th March – (3.00pm-4.30pm) - www.trybooking.com/TXRW

Complementary light refreshments are available.

Please share this information to your network.

YOUTH DRIVER SAFETY A ROTARY PRIORITY!

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT UPCOMING DEMENTIA SEMINARS

TIM ENGLAND UPDATES THE DEMENTIA PROGRAM

WE NEED YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

ROTARIANS ON DUTY THIS MONTH

OUR MEMBERS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

YOU'RE INVITED TO A CHARITY DINNER

TRUE BLUE AUSSIES

What does Australia Day mean to you? Football? Meat pies? Kangaroos? Holden Cars? Vegemite? Laminations? So many wonderful things make us true blue!

THIS WEEK: WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY 2018

THANK YOU TO OUR GREAT AUSSIE BACKYARD BBQ HOSTS!

WE KNOW HOW TO CELEBRATE IN STYLE!

WELCOME TABLE AND SERGEANT DUTIES THIS WEEK

WHAT INSPIRES YOU ABOUT BEING A ROTARIAN?

24 JANUARY 2018 MEETING - AUSSIE BACKYARD BBQ

Thanks to Dinah and Russell Crofts we are going enjoy an authentic Aussie Backyard BBQ next Wednesday. All we need to do is bring our own drinks, dress up in our favourite Aussie gear and pay $25pp into the club account ... details are below:

REFLECTIONS ON GUEST SPEAKER 17 JANUARY 2019

PAUL HARRIS PRESENTATION TO JOANNE LI

DEMENTIA SEMINARS - MAKING A DIFFERENCE

UPDATE ON INSULIN PUMP PROGRAM

Congratulations and Celebrations

NEW ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THEME ANNOUNCED FOR 2018-2019

The Rotary International President Elect Barry Rassin wants us all to "Be the Inspiration" in 2018-2019!

FREE DEMENTIA EDUCATION SESSION - 18 JANUARY 2018

To the friends of the Rotary Club of St Ives

AND JUST LIKE THAT 2017 TREE OF JOY IS OVER!

BEFORE and AFTER shots of the Elf Headquarters! A double garage full of gifts is now empty and under the trees of so many nursing homes from Manly to Hornsby. Well done everyone ... this is what Christmas is all about! Merry Christmas to one and all who made Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy project happen!

ENTHUSIASM PLUS!

John W arrived with gusto ... the spirit of the season in abundance! After consulting with the Elf about directions and details of the nursing home the car was loaded and John was about to spread his good cheer with others. The Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy brings joy to all involved!

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

Marie and Graham arrived singing carols! They quickly scooped up the gifts they needed to deliver to Southern Cross Nursing Home and were off again. They received the 'thumbs up" on arrival when they dropped off the gifts. Rotary Club of St Ives are good at spreading Christmas cheer!

Next delivery off the rank was Peter

Peter was pleased to arrive at Elf Headquarters this morning and in good spirits to collect the gifts going to Kari Court and filled the car with presents! Presents gratefully received by Veronica (Nursing Unit Manager) and Lax (Manager) at Kari Court. The Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy will have delivered 1,110 gifts to people in nursing homes in the North Shore by the end of today - it could not happen without the wonderful support of our community! Merry Christmas to all.

RIGHT ON TIME TIM!

True to his word Tim was right on time to collect the gifts from Elf Headquarters. He was then off to the Thomas and Rosetta Agst Nursing Home. In addition to photos loading up the car you can see Rotarian Tim and staff member, Jeanette taking a little rest after unpacking the car and getting them inside. A happy Christmas Day guaranteed thanks to the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy!

THE APPLE DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE

President Harold (in the red santa shirt and hat) is ready to confer Honorary Rotary Membership to Ian Edwards (yellow shirt) who has been supporting his father every year in the Tree of Joy delivery process to the nursing homes. Thank you Ian for being such a wonderful son to Wal - he was obviously an amazing father and clearly the apple didn't fall too far from the tree!

WAL AND THE ELF CONVERSE

Need to make sure all the presents are in their correct boxes, correctly labelled and numbered! Wal phones the nursing home ahead to make sure they will be there ready and waiting when they arrive. Then it's into the car and off to deliver! At 101 years young Wal Edwards you have us in awe of your commitment, compassion and your cognitive strength - you are a legend!

WAL'S LIST OF NURSING HOMES

The famous list! If you haven't seen the list, then here it is! Wal's famous list, neatly scribed and numbered in priority of delivery. Wal Edwards has been doing the Rotary St Ives Tree of Joy for so many years he almost knows the names of every nursing home off by heart but that doesn't stop this military style operation being formerly listed and checked off with precision.

MURRAY WEARING TWO HATS

Rotarian Murray is also a volunteer at our local SES. He was on duty with them today and needed a big boot to load lots of gifts so he had two hats on today. Gifts delivered to Ainslie at North Haven Nursing Home Turramurra from the Rotary Club of St Ives Tree of Joy.

BARRY'S WAS THE FIRST CAR TO ARRIVE

Barry's was the first car to arrive Friday morning to collect gifts for the residents at McQuoin Park, Waitara. The Elves even had special instructions about getting parking as some locations are a bit tricky to deliver to at this time of year. Michelle was there to receive the boxes of gifts that were going to the different centres: McGovery, Carter, Lewis, McAuley at McQuoin Park along with our very best wishes for a wonderful Christmas.

TREE OF JOY ELVES WORK LATE INTO THE NIGHT CHECKING OFF LISTS

It was a very late night Thursday that the Elves worked checking off lists for the Tree of Joy. There were a few presents missing, so a quick trip in to the Tree of Joy Friday morning. Gifts collected and ticked off the list! Now for the delivery!

ALL WE NEED NOW IS TO WAIT FOR THE PRESENTS TO COME BACK

HAPPY 101ST BIRTHDAY WAL EDWARDS

WE TELL WAL WHAT WE THINK OF HIM!

THE GORDON W. KING AWARD

THE DAVID JAMES AWARD

GOT TO LOVE A MAN IN A RED SUIT!

THE GIFT OF A BOOK FOR ALL

THE ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES CHRISTMAS PARTY

THE TREE OF JOY WORKSHOP

THANK YOU MASADA COLLEGE - BOOKS 4 OUTBACK

OUR ROTARIAN GREG RAPPO RECEIVES AN SES AWARD

OUR DONATION TO THE SONY CAMP AT PLC

THINKING OF OUR MEMBERS IN HOSPITAL

SPEEDY RECOVERY BRUCE!

This basket of fruit was delivered to Bruce at Lady Davidson Hospital on Friday, He loves fruit and has plenty to choose from with: raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, peaches, nectarines, bananas, mangoes, pear, lychee, kiwi fruit and grapes. Oh and there was a little packet of hazelnut chocolate tucked in the back too! Speedy recovery Bruce!

YOU'VE GOT UNTIL MONDAY TO BOOK FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARTY AND WAL'S 101ST BIRTHDAY

SO PROUD TO BE PART OF THE ROTARY TREE OF JOY IN DECEMBER

YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN CAROLS IN THE PARK THIS WEEKEND

FIRST TIMERS TO THE TREE OF JOY

Thank you Vera and baby Raymond for participating in the Tree of Joy! Vera stopped to inquire about how the Tree of Joy works on Tuesday, took a card away and then returned Thursday with her gift. Beautifully wrapped with care and proudly given to an elderly person she does not know and will never meet.

It is little wonder why the Tree of Joy brings so much joy!! Joy given to over 1,000 elderly people in nursing homes who receive the gifts. Joy to those who take the cards and and generously purchase gifts for people they do not know and will never meet. Joy for all Rotarians working on the Tree of Joy project. Think I speak the sentiment of everyone when I say the Tree of Joy brings joy to everyone involved!

WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER -

WISH YOU COULD SPEAK WITH YOUR MUM? DIAL-A-MUM!

WINNER OF RYPEN LEADERSHIP WRITING COMPETITION - ABBEY BYWATER

WARM WELCOME TO THREE VISITORS - PLEASE COME AGAIN

SAVE THE DATE - IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE!

THANK YOU BARE TRACK RUN VOLUNTEERS

LOOK WHO'S BEEN CAUGHT MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

RUSSELL CROFT - CAUGHT MAKING A DIFFERENCE

OUR MEMBERS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP?

COMEDY FOR A CAUSE A GREAT SUCCESS!

REFLECTIONS MELBOURNE CUP EVENING THIS WEEK

LEARN MORE ABOUT ROTARY FOUNDATION THIS WEEK

ST IVES ROTARY SUPPORTING BARE CREEK TRAIL RUN - 12 NOVEMBER

There is a wonderful community event coming up on 12 November ... fabulous way to spend a Sunday morning! Check it out and register soon: http://barecreektrailrun.com

HAVE YOU GOT THE BOBBO DATE FOR 2018 IN YOUR DIARY?

LEARNING ABOUT ONE FIRST FLEET CONVICT

HAVE YOU GOT SOME TIME TO HELP GIRLS?

ACTION NEEDED - BOOK FOR BUSINESS BREAKFAST

DEMENTIA SEMINAR AT HUON PARK

GREAT NIGHT OUT 4 NOVEMBER!

SPARE PENS AND PENCILS CAN HELP

SHOEBOX CHRISTMAS DUE THIS WEEK

BOOK LAUNCH - EAT FOR BETTER HEALTH

BOBBO DIARY DATE - 25 MARCH 2018

CAUGHT MAKING A DIFFERENCE - TIM ENGLAND

HAVE YOU BOOKED FOR OUR BUSINESS BREAKFAST?

If you haven't booked yet please consider doing it this week.

Importantly do you have a friend who might enjoy this special business?

This is a great opportunity to introduce potential members to our Club.

CONGRATULATIONS DI AND BARRY BARNES

UPDATE ON INSULIN PUMP PROJECT

REFLECTIONS ON DEMENTIA SEMINAR

REFLECTIONS ON 27 SEPTEMBER 2017

WELL DONE ROSEMARY AND ANN

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2017

CHECK YOUR EMAILS FOR LATEST COPY OF THE WARPATH

THIS WEDNESDAY - 27 SEPTEMBER 2017

DEMENTIA SEMINAR - THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2017

RELECTIONS ON LAST WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES

CHECK THE DATE - COMEDY FOR A CAUSE

ROTARY MEMBERSHIP

THANK YOU GRACE

CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS

REFLECTIONS ON WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017

MEETING THIS WEEK

BUSINESS BREAKFAST MEETING - 20 OCTOBER

DO YOU HAVE A NOMINATION FOR PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP?

PLEASE ADD THIS DATE TO YOUR DIARY

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

REFLECTIONS ON MEETING 6 SEPTEMBER

ROTARY THIS WEEK - 6 SEPTEMBER 2017

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

CAUGHT MAKING A DIFFERENCE - JOHN STEEL

ROTARY CLUB OF ST IVES GIVING LEGACY A HELPING HAND

LEARNING FROM GEN Y ROTARIAN

DG PETER WARD VISITS ST IVES ROTARY

WE WELCOME TWO NEW MEMBERS!

GREG RAPPO MAKING A DIFFERENCE

THIS WEEK - 30 AUGUST 2017

DETAILS OF MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JOHN TAINSH

SEE YOU AT PYMBLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FAIR THIS SUNDAY

VALE John Tainsh

It is with great sadness we share the news of the death of our long-term member and friend John Tainsh who died suddenly Thursday 17 August in Sydney Adventist Hospital.

John will be well known to many members of the community for his work with the Tree of Joy over many years – and of course his work with all other Rotary projects, especially hosting our Cultural Exchange students.

Our loving thoughts and sincere condolences go to Jane Ann and family.

Club Assembly this week

This week Wednesday 16 August – Club Assembly

President Harold is keen to ensure that all members know and understand what is happening in our club over the coming year. All Directors will present a brief report to members at this meeting outlining what they will be doing to support Rotary International and specifically our members. Rotary Clubs around the world share many things in common and yet are each uniquely different. To ensure we enjoy club synergy of efforts members are asked to be sure to attend this meeting so that you can have your say about what you value and hope for ‘your’ club.

As a follow-up on our meeting with Phillip Norrie members will be able to sample his famous red wine that is both good drinking and good for your health.

Please make an effort to attend this meeting so that your voice is heard and our club is strengthened by the many great ideas our members have to influence club direction.

OUR GUEST SPEAKER THIS WEEK ...

Has your copy of Rotary Down Under arrived?

As always the latests copy of Rotary Down Under is packed with interesting articles!

Important Dementia Radio Interview

If you missed Tim England's radio interview on Triple H 'Stay in the Loop with Lucy' Dahill on the 30 July, you can view this podcast: http://www.stayintheloopwithlucy.com/blog/dementia-time-to-talk

Excellent information shared with the community - a must hear for anyone who has concerns for someone with Dementia.

Would you like to know more about the Rotary Club of St Ives

If you would like to visit our club or are thinking of joining a Rotary club, please come to one of our regular meetings, just let us know two days in advance so that we can organise catering for you.

We meet on Wednesday evenings at the Peter Canisius House, 102 Mona Vale Rd Pymble at 6.30 pm, with the formal part of the meeting starting at 7.00 pm. We usually finish at 8.30 pm. We have a two course dinner.

The cost of dinner is $35 per person. Please send an email to attend@stivesrotary.asn.au if you would like to attend a meeting. Our Club Secretary, will confirm your attendance.

We look forward to welcoming you and helping you better understand what we do at the Rotary Club of St Ives.

How much are 6 minutes of your time worth?

How much is 6 minutes of your life worth?

3.5 million Australian's have some form of hearing loss. 85% of them do nothing about it. 'Does Love Last Forever?' is a short film with two different outcomes, depending on your hearing ability. It’s a hearing test in disguise based around a love story that follows the lives of a couple over 40 years.

Various audio and film techniques were used throughout the film to lead those who are hard of hearing to believe the relationship deteriorates over time. The aim is to get Australian's debating what they experienced and talking about the impact hearing loss has on their lives – ultimately prompting people to take an online hearing test to gauge their level of hearing loss.

Watch this and do others a favour by sharing it with your family and friends. Well done Cochlear Limited - fabulous corporate citizen and pride of Australia!

http://doeslovelastforever.com

Reflections on Wednesday 2 August 2017

Seeing the Cochlear building as you drive on to University Drive is impressive. Everything inside the building is also incredibly impressive too!

Shaun Hand, General Manager, Cochlear Australia and New Zealand was our host this evening. He too impressed us with his depth of knowledge about the company, the actual cochlear implant, production, future markets and importantly his sincerity and passion for what he does and the difference Cochlear makes to peoples lives. He shared the journey of Cochlear with us, a visit of the production area and was very generous with his time in answering our many questions!

Most Australians know and feel a sense of Aussie pride when the name Cochlear is mentioned. It represents the best of our clever ingenuity, innovation, persistence and is an example of our nation as being a country that can match it with the best practice and punching above its weight.

Not only is the Cochlear implant clever technology offering profoundly deaf people the opportunity to hear – it was also born of a dream by one extraordinarily dedicated individual to make a difference. In some ways it’s a love story.

Professor Graeme Clark, an ear surgeon in Melbourne, was that individual. He’d watched the struggles over his lifetime of a father who was profoundly deaf. It was this personal experience that drove his commitment and career pathway. Against conventional medical beliefs at the time his was a radical concept went against the tide of thinking. A team of like-minded specialists worked tirelessly researching and persisting to turn a concept into a reality. In 1967 he began researching the possibility of an electronic, implantable hearing device – a cochlear implant. In 1978 the first Cochlear implant surgery of a multi-channel electrical stimulation took place and Cochlear Limited was born.

Chris Roberts the CEO who led Cochlear for some 12 years was instrumental in setting up this state-of-the-art facility we visited and structuring the company to be a success long into the future.

Chris Smith is the current CEO of Cochlear and the tradition of commitment to excellence continues. Apart from maintaining a successful business model for the company their mission is to make the innovative multi-channel Cochlear implant commercially available all over the world.

The challenges in the future continue. Research and Development remains a high priority for Cochlear as they seek to bring to the marketplace a complete cochlear implant without any external ear pieces. It begs the imagination as to taking this concept from an ideal to the real but it is just a matter of time before this will be the best practice. With a company like Cochlear leading the way for another innovation it is inevitable that a safe, reliable and life-changing medical device will become commonplace.

Here are some of the amazing facts about Cochlear:
• Cochlear is a worldwide company
• 100 staff in Australia with 350 staff involved in Research and Development
• The youngest child to receive an implant - 3 months old
• The eldest recipient was 91 years old
• Since 2004 every Australian child who needs a Cochlear gets one
• 1 in 6 people have a hearing impediment
• 80% of people with a hearing disability do nothing about it
• Cochlear devices have not had a price rise in 12 years
• More than 219,000 individuals worldwide have received Cochlear implants
• Cochlear implantation consistently the most cost-effective procedures.
With such concerning statistics about hearing decline over the age of 50 years of age this market looms as a potential area for future expansion of the company. Rotary Clubs fit the demographic of people who at some point in their lives may well benefit from having a Cochlear implant.

How much is 6 minutes of your life worth?
3.5 million Australian's have some form of hearing loss. 85% of them do nothing about it. 'Does Love Last Forever?' is a short film with two different outcomes, depending on your hearing ability. It’s a hearing test in disguise based around a love story that follows the lives of a couple over 40 years.

If you have hearing loss there is something you can do now!
If you are wondering if a Cochlear hearing solution may be useful to support your hearing loss it is possible to communicate with someone at Cochlear who will review your audiology results and be able to give you options for best pathway forward. Cochlear have a team of experts who are able to give information and guidance on Cochlear solutions and better hearing and can be contacted by emailing: concierge_ausnz@cochlear.com or phone 1800 875 212

Want to learn more about Cochlear Limited?
Visit the Cochlear website for more information:
http://www.cochlear.com/…/company-infor…/company-information

Cochlear was born of the heart from the start. Cochlear continues today inspiring the hearts and minds of all who work there to make a difference and to continue to strive for innovation, clever thinking, best practice and drive to help others. Passion for what they do clearly continues the story … a story that invites all Australians to strive against the odds, persist despite challenges and ultimately work to make life better for others.

Dementia Seminar - 3 August

Dementia Project Update

Tim advised that he will be delivering another Dementia Seminar at Canisius House. If members have not been able to attend these sessions previously they are warmly invited to ask their family and friends to this event.

Date:- Thursday 3rd August, 2017
Time:- 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Venue:- Peter Canisius House

Online booking via link: www.trybooking.com/300451

Want to know more about Rotary?

Are there Rotarians in your Club who would benefit from attending RLI?

Feel there are gaps in your Rotary knowledge? Want to prepare for your Rotary Year? Hungry for knowledge that goes beyond PETS and DA? Want to share your experience of Rotary with others?

Then RLI is for you and a new course for 2017 are open now:
RLI 43; Sundays; 10 September, 24 September, 8 October.
Register at rli.rotarydistrict9685.org.au
The cost for the full course is $75*.

The benefits of doing RLI are many; so boost your knowledge and skills, and share your experience by joining in. The three part course is held at our District Office, Thornleigh. Morning tea and lunch are provided. Each day starts at 8:30 for 9:00am and finishes around 3:45pm.

For more information contact Ian Scott, Rotary Leadership Institute Convener, from the Rotary club of Central Blue Mountains on 0402 217 915

Do you want onions with that?

Another sensational effort from the BBQ team again last Saturday at Belrose Bunnings store.

BIG thanks go to: Harold, John S, Peter, George, Lyndall, Ian King, Greg, Murray, Grace, John W, Tim E, and our newest Friends of Rotary Sandy and Neil Lloyd- Thomas.

Photo below of Greg and Tim.

Reflections on Wednesday 19 July 2017

Leonie impressed us with her scientific knowledge and her passion to share information about fusion energy as the way for serving our power demands in the future. Her appetite to understand, probe and learn more about physics, pure mathematics and statistics keeps her busy and abreast of the latest research developments in fusion energy.

She explained how fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun and the stars, is a potential source of safe, non-carbon emitting and virtually limitless energy. Harnessing fusion’s power has the challenge historically, but it would seem we are at the cusp of the world’s first fusion energy plant thanks to ITER member nations of China, European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States who are now engaged in a 35 year collaboration to build a fusion reactor.

What is ITER? ITER literally means “The Way” in Latin and is one the most ambitious energy projects in the world today and their mission is to build the world’s largest tokamak.

What is ITER attempting to do? ITER are building a scientific facility that will become a Fusion energy plant constructed on a 42 hectare site in southern France. They will construct the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of a fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars. No small ambition!! The ground support structure and the seismic foundations of the ITER Tokamak are in place and work is underway on the Tokamak Complex—a suite of three buildings that will house the fusion experiments. Work is also underway on auxiliary plant buildings such as the ITER cryoplant, the radio frequency heating building, and facilities for cooling water, power conversion, and power supply. You can watch the construction online by viewing: https://www.iter.org/construction/construction

By any measure the goal of ITER is an ambitious one. With government collaboration and financial funding to support the greatest minds around the world to continue their research without fear of funding drying up. The level of complexity, technical knowledge required still makes the pathway forward a challenging one.

To the non-physicist/mathematician world there is some confusion between fusion – fission and even nuclear energy. Our lack of knowledge about what fusion is, it’s potential, and the research commitment needed to advance the process sometimes causes the public and indeed governments to hold unfortunate cynicism, or confusion at best, about fusion energy.

Importantly Leonie reminded us that unlike the perils of nuclear energy. Fusion does not produce runaway chain reactions and there is no need to worry about meltdowns. Fusion reactors do not produce large amounts of dangerous radioactive waste – perhaps the most compelling argument compelling scientists around the world to completely commitment to fusion as being worthy of international commitment and support!

Harnessing fusion’s power is the goal of ITER, which has been designed as the key experimental step between today’s fusion research and accessing fusion power in the future. The world is at the cusp of a very exciting adventure.

To see what is happening in Australian research for Fusion visit ANU to learn more about a joint venture with China:

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-will-work-with-chinese-scientists-on-fusion-energy

Ku-ring-gai Mayor pays tribute to Rotary Clubs

Ku-ring-gai Mayor pays tribute to Rotary Clubs in latest North Shore Times

Jennifer Anderson, in a recent article in the North Shore Times, paid tribute to Rotary Clubs in Ku-ring-gai. Following is an extract from the article and at the bottom is a link if you would like to read the whole article or print a copy.

“Ku-ring-gai’s Rotary clubs deserve special mention for the enormous work they do for a variety of causes locally and elsewhere. Each year the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic raises close to $100,000 much of which goes back to local organisations. The Gordon Markets and St Ives Food and Wine Festival are also successful fundraising events. Residents are grateful to Rotary volunteers for their graffiti removal program on private property and the Council has successfully partnered with Rotary to build recreational projects such as the Roseville Chase playground off Babbage Road. I encourage residents who have some time to spare to consider joining Rotary or one of the other service clubs in our community.”

We are always grateful for the support we receive from Ku-ring-gai Council, especially for their sponsorship for the St Ives Food and Wine Festival.

To view online or print your own copy visit: http://newslocal.smedia.com.au/north-shore-times/

Reflections on Wednesday 19 July 2017

What is ITER? ITER literally means “The Way” in Latin and is one the most ambitious energy projects in the world today and their mission is to build the world’s largest tokamak.

To see what is happening in Australian research for Fusion visit ANU to learn more about a joint venture with China:

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-will-work-with-chinese-scientists-on-fusion-energy

Important Dementia Community Service Seminar

Dementia Project Update

Tim England advised that he will be delivering another FREE Dementia Seminar at Canisius House.

All members of the community are welcome to attend this event. If you have a personal interest in learning more about Dementia, or are looking to understand how to better support a loved with Dementia this is a not to be missed opportunity!

Date:- Thursday 3rd August, 2017

Time:- 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Venue:- Peter Canisius House

Please reserve your place by booking online at the following link: www.trybooking.com/300451

Promoting Rotary

Posted by Di Barnes

This week at Rotary Club of St Ives - Leonie Newman

Caught Making A Difference

Bunnings BBQ Saturday 15 July

Reflections on Wednesday 12 July

Vale Ned Lenthal

Rotary's Six Areas of Focus

Get a better understanding of Rotary - check these websites below:

Rotary is where neighbours, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change. Rotary is dedicated to six areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever.

1.Promoting #peace
Rotary encourages conversations to foster understanding within and across cultures. We train adults and young leaders to prevent and mediate conflict and help refugees who have fled dangerous areas.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/promoting-peace

2.Fighting #disease
We educate and equip communities to stop the spread of life-threatening diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. We improve and expand access to low-cost and free health care in developing areas.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/fighting-disease

3.Providing #cleanwater, #sanitation, and #hygiene
We support local solutions to bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to more people every day. We don’t just build wells and walk away. We share our expertise with community leaders and educators to make sure our projects succeed long-term.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/providing-clean-water

4.Saving #mothers and #children
Nearly 6 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and their children can live and grow stronger.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/saving-mothers-and-children

5.Supporting #education
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/supporting-education

6.Growing local #economies
We carry out service projects that enhance economic and community development and create opportunities for decent and productive work for young and old. We also strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
For more information
https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/growing-local-economies

Sources - www.rotary.org

The Waratah has been emailed to you

First meeting of new Rotary year

This week at Rotary Club of St Ives

Words matter

Rotary Club of St Ives Rotarians Making A Difference

Harold's Mutterings

There's a whole new world out there!

Want to know more about social media?

Let us know if you want help with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

We have members ready and able to help you connect.

Greetings from Bhuvan in USA

The New Board

Fabulous Night at Changeover Dinner

Thank you

Special Foundation Member

Rotary Club of St Ives Paul Harris Fellows

Message from Ian Riseley

Message from our new President

Changeover Week

The 2017-2018 Rotary Year starts today 1 July 2017.

Posted by Di Barnes on Jul 01, 2017

How will the Rotary Club of St Ives be "Making a Difference"?

Watch this space!

July edition of Rotary Down Under Magazine out now!

Posted by Di Barnes

What do you know about Ian Risley our new President of Rotary International, other than he's an Australian?

You can find out much more about Ian in the latest edition of Rotary Down Under magazine. Look out for it in your letterbox any day now!

The Atlanta Convention has some more good news!

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will talk about the importance of our continued commitment to a polio-free world.

Date confirmed. Bill Gates to address convention attendees Monday, 12 June during the General Session 2 at 09:45 - 12:00 - what a highlight it will be for all attending!

Find out more at: https://content.clubrunner.ca/6167/Story/Add?Choice=All

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Megan Tilley celebrates 20 years in Rotary!

27 May 2017 Megan Tilley celebrates being a Rotarian for 20 years!

Proud member of the Rotary Club of St Ives! Congratulations Megan!

This week at Rotary - Wednesday 31 May 2017

Have you seen our banner?

Message from our sponsor - Storage King Thornleigh

A Message from our Club Sponsor - Storage King Thornleigh

We're going to dinner - 7 June!

Peter's Ponderings

Check your emails for your copy of The Waratah

Donate your coat!

Advance Warning - Wednesday

Bobbo Presentation - Wednesday 24 May at Pymble Golf Club

Rotary - the original social network

Peter's Ponderings - Reflections on guest speaker - Jay Bacik

Storage King Thornleigh new sponsor for Rotary Club of St Ives

17 May Guest Speaker - Jay Bacik

24 May - Bobbo Presentation Dinner

RYDA on National Road Safety Week

National Youth Science Forum

Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment

Peter's Ponderings

Update on Dementia Seminars Project

This week at Rotary Club of St Ives

Vale David James

Peter's Ponderings

The Waratah - 10 May 2017

FREE Community lectures on Dementia - Wednesday 3 May

The Rotary Club of St Ives is pleased to advise details of FREE Dementia Information sessions for the community scheduled for Wednesday 3rd May. See times below for website details to register.

The venue is Canisius House, 102Mona Vale Road, Pymble. To book for either session follow the details below. You can also call Tim England directly if you do not have internet access, or would like more information.

Wednesday 3rd May 12.30pm – 2.00pm - www.trybooking.com/274663

Wednesday 3rd May 3.00pm – 4.30pm – www.trybooking.com/274666

Reflections on Wednesday 19 April 2017

Next Meeting - Wednesday 26 April 2017

Wednesday 26 April

As a special ANZAC Day focus this week Mervyn Rosen will speak about the MV Krait and the raid on Singapore. Down at the wharves of Sydney's Darling Harbour, amid the bustling crowds and high-rise buildings, an unassuming timber fishing boat is moored at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Appearances can be deceiving though. MV Krait, as the old Japanese trawler is known, played a key role in one of World War II's most audacious and successful commando raids on Singapore Harbour on the night of 26 September 1943.

We encourage members to invited family and friends to this special evening and in addition to our door prizes of wine there is the opportunity to win a family pass to the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Induction of two new members into Rotary Club of St Ives

Vien speaks about Rotary Leadership Course

Reflections on Wednesday 12 April 2017

Rotary Down Under delivered this week

Posted by Di Barnes

Rotary Down Under delivered to you this week!

2 FREE community service Dementia lectures in April

Rotary Club of St Ives is pleased to promote the following workshops and asks that you share this important community service announcement with your family and friends:

There are two FREE public lectures scheduled for

Wednesday 12 April at 12.20pm to 2.00pm

and a repeat session

Wednesday 12 April from 3.00p, to 4.30pm

the venue is Peter Canisius House, 102 Mona Vale Road, Pymble.

If you would like to register or obtain more information please contact Tim England on 0406 764 340

Report from John Steel

Posted on Mar 18, 2017

Next Meeting 22 March is our BOBBO Brief

Posted on Mar 18, 2017

StIves Food and Wine Festival Update

Posted on Mar 18, 2017

The Steering Committee for the St Ives Food and Wine Festival met last week and it has been decided that time will not permit us to reschedule the festival in 2017. We will apply to Council to hold the next festival in September 2018 as March is already busy with both the Bobbo and District Conference and can be too hot. We all share a deep disappointment that our major fundraiser did not proceed and are committed to ensure that the next time we hold this event it will be even bigger and better than we had planned for this March.

Reflections on Wednesday 15 March 2017

Posted on Mar 18, 2017

District Conference - 12 March

Posted on Mar 18, 2017

Thanks to the Graffiti Removalist!

Proud to support Wheels on Wheels

Welcome back to Australia Juan Jo

What's on this week ...

St Ives Food and Wine Festival reluctantly cancelled

St Ives Food and Wine Festival Briefing Wednesday 1 March

Reflections on Business Breakfast with Shaun Hand

Welcome to new member Rosemary Coucouvinis

Reflections on Wednesday 22 February Meeting

Posted on Feb 26, 2017

Free Dementia Lectures

Posted on Feb 18, 2017

With the kind support of Ku-ring-gai council, Peter Canisius House (Pymble) and some local businesses, The Rotary Club of St Ives is hosting a number of DEMENTIA educational community events.

Scheduled during the month of March, these FREE events will inform participants the truth-about-dementia and it's impact on individuals and their family, the local community, and discuss what simple actions communities can do to support those living with dementia.

Using non-complicated terms and language these daytime sessions are ideal for carers and family members of someone living with dementia, or anyone who wishes to gain practical knowledge and understanding about dementia.

The Rotary Club of St Ives requests your attendance and encourages each Rotarian to include a guest when completing their booking.

Seats are limited and bookings are essential.

To avoid disappoint please secure your place via the booking links below.

Wednesday 8th March 12.30pm - 2.00pm - www.trybooking.com/259763

Wednesday 8th March 3.00pm - 4.30pm - www.trybooking.com/259764

Wednesday 29th March 4.00pm - 5.30pm - www.trybooking.com/261761

Tim England

Dementia Champion - 0406 764 340

A date for your diary - Wednesday 15 March

Volunteers Needed!

Business Breakfast - Wednesday 22 February

This Wednesday 15 February 2017

Reflections on Wednesday 8 February

Northside Radio 99.3 supports St Ives Food and Wine Festival

Big thank you to Tony Pang from Northside Radio 99.3

for the fabulous interview he gave to Di Barnes

to help us promote the St Ives Food and Wine Festival

on Sunday 5 March.

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Happy Australia Day from all the members of Rotary Club of St Ives

Check your emails for the latest copy of The Waratah

St Ives Food and Wine Festival update

Tree of Joy - bringing joy to over one thousand senior citizens

Thank you to all Rotarians of the Rotary Club of St Ives who helped make the Tree of Joy such a wonderful success in 2016. Manning our table for three weeks at St Ives Village is a huge commitment and everyone did a splendid job of representing the face to Rotary to our community.

John and Jane Ann Tainsh with John Steel ready and organised with boxes of gifts for collection and delivery

The two John's helping Tim English load up his car for one delivery

Jade from McQuoin Park Catholic Care Waitara

The first gift has been delivered to the Tree of Joy

Posted by Di Barnes

Rotary St Ives will be at The Tree of Joy from now uni until Wednesday 21 December at St Ives Shopping Village.

Our first gift returned to the tree on Monday was from the sweetest little boy and his Mum. He is so small he almost gets lost in the tree behind him, but you can't miss that big smile:) So special that children are learning to be generous to elderly people in nursing homes at Christmas. The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in St Ives.

Celebrating Wal Edwards OAM 100th Birthday

Posted by Di Barnes on Nov 26, 2016

Winner of the Rotary 'Four-Way Test' Writing Competition

The winning entry of the ‘Four-Way Test’ Writing Competition was written by Amin Habibi, a Year 9 student from St Ives High School and is published below.

Everything in life, whether it be through actions or speech, affects not only those that instigate the action, but the countless number of people who are also in one’s social circle. The clichéd saying “There is a time and a place for everything,” is quite appropriate as one must always consider the manner of their actions in relation to the people around them. Therefore, it is necessary to think through the Four-Way Test and analyse the strategies one can use to make the right decisions, say the right things and ac appropriately in the right place at the right time.

Is it the Truth?

Honesty is a trait that is cherished and valued by society. Unfortunately, dishonesty is becoming more and more accepted in the general public as role-models continue to disappoint my generation with their immoral, fraudulent acts. Lance Armstrong professional road racing cyclist, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal form of testicular cancer which has spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen. When asked in an interview on Lance’s chance of survival, Jim Reeves (his urologist) said “Almost none”. Miraculously, he came back from his cancer ordeal to win the Tour de France seven consecutive times. Jim Reeses said on his unbelievable comeback, “incredible. It’s almost too good to be true ....”” Due to his ridiculous feat, allegations of doping began to plague Armstrong. He continued to deny any form of doping for six years. He had the whole world behind him. He was my role-model, I defended him and thought the media was wrong. In 2013 Lance Armstrong admitted to doping in a live televised interview with Oprah Winfrey. His story goes down as one of modern history’s worst lies and his reputation (as well as cycling’s) was tarnished forever. I could never look at him the same way ever again. This is how I learnt the consequences of dishonesty. Honesty is very important no matter what age you are or what the situation is. The ability to balance the act of truthfulness is essential to the Four-way Test, as one cannot be to honest to the point of being offensive.

Is it fair to all concerned?

Life is not fair, and as truthfully hurtful it may be, it is still true. However, there is a point where one can harass, bully, or abuse someone, and that is definitely not fair. The antagonist in this situation has not thought or even considered their actions towards this person and the way they might feel in response to their comments or actions. If every person that went out of their way to make someone else miserable considered the fairness of their choice there would be no harassing, bullying or abusing. Displaying respect to your peers is incredibly beneficial, as they will most likely display the same respect back. This is why it is important (to) understand how others feel about the things you think, say or do.

Will it build good will and better friendships?

Baltasar Gracian once said, “True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune, to keep them is a blessing.” There is no other way to stress the importance of friendship in our modern society. Understanding how to build positive relationships is imperative in having great friendships. Therefore, evaluating your decisions before you act upon them is important as it is very easy to seriously harm, or even break one’s relationships.

Will it be beneficial to all concerned? “If you’ve got nothing nice to say, don’t say it.”

Whether it be adding to class discussion, or suggesting an idea at a meeting, it is essential that everyone can capitalise on the positive values and thoughts one can display. Through demonstrating these types of values, one can attract respect from their peers and hopefully pass on their values to others. However, in a world where people are sacrificing the future of our planet for immediate financial gain, it is important to remember that if there was to be a scenario where one person’s immediate wellbeing must be sacrificed, it should be yours. The hackneyed saying of “Put others before yourself” is very relevant in this case.

Displaying respect to one another is incredibly important to me, and as my father always says “respect is very easy to lose, but incredibly difficult to gain back”. This saying is synonymous with all of the Four Tests and should be applied alongside each of the tests. Essentially, considering the truth, fairness fellowship and benefits of your actions can help you make the right decision every time. When you reflect on the truth of a statement, you can save yourself the potential embarrassment and tarnishing of your image. By considering the fairness of your choices, the decisions you make will not be offensive or humiliate anyone and in turn will strengthen your personal image. This is why the Four-Way Test should be applied to any aspect of your life.

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” Ray Disney

Looking forward to Wednesday 23 November

Reflections on Wednesday 16 November

District Conference - Saturday 11 March 2017

Posted by Di Barnes

Winners of the Rotary 'Four-Way Test' Writing Competition

Posted by Di Barnes

The Rotary Club of St Ives would like to thank the 57 students from St Ives High School who submitted essays in the Rotary ‘Four-Way’ Test Writing Competition.

The judging committee are delighted to advise the three students to receive monetary prizes are:

Prize Winners

1^st Prize $250 to Amin Habibi - The Importance of the Four-Way Test

2^nd Prize $150 to Kate Farkas - A Better Outlook for a Better Future

3^rd Prize $100 to Hilary Ross - Four-Ways from Age Four

The judges were impressed by the calibre of all the entries. They wished to acknowledge seven students in particular whose writing and content was highly commendable. The following students are to receive Highly Commended Certificates:

Abbey Cormican-Jones – Reflections As You Go
Abigail Bywaters – A Healthy Teenager with Healthy Relationships
Isla Davison – Foundations of a positive relationship
Lily Chadban – Testing the ‘Four-Way Test’
Grace Manning – Conquering the Battlefield of High School
Auria Nunes – Intuition over Instruction
Jessica Yap – Truth About High School Minds

We would like to invite the three Prize Winners to attend the Rotary Club of St Ives meeting on Wednesday 30 November to receive their cheques. More information about that will be communicated to the three winning students.

Special thanks to Miss Smith, Head Teacher English at St Ives High School who coordinated this competition for us throughout St Ives High School.

Looking forward to Wednesday 16 November

Reflections on Wednesday 9 November

Reflections on 31 October - Melbourne Cup with a Halloween twist

There is no doubt about it! Rotarians at the Rotary Club of St Ives are young at heart and enjoy having fun!! Congratulations everyone for making the evening such a happy fun-loving one by letting your hair down and ‘dressing up’ for the occasion. Everyone proved to be up for the challenge of creatively combining The Melbourne Cup with a Halloween twist!!

Best dressed winners … The four prizes will be available for collection at Rotary this week! Reminder the winners were:

Cathy and George Papallo for being the most elegant Melbourne Cup couple
Chris Malloy for being the most glamorous Halloween character
Marie and Grahame for being the most coordinated couple – loved the hot pink hats
John Steele for going ‘above and beyond’ with the makeup and costume – fabulous John!
Jane Ann Tainsh for the most creative Halloween outfit and still looking gorgeous!

Lest We Forget

Reflections on Wednesday 26 October

Dr Greg McDonald was the most amazing speaker at our Rotary meeting Wednesday night. What an extraordinary Emergency Department specialist and humanitarian!!

We wondered about the title of his talk "Emergency Department Fun or Profit", but quickly came to understand the reality that working in an emergency hospital is never fun and certainly not for financial profit. The serious side of working in the Emergency Department of a large private hospital became clear, so too did the enormous level of commitment, expertise and experience this man brings to the culture of the SAN and all that work with him. What a gem of a gentleman!

Rotary next week is MONDAY 31 October

It's all happening next week - Monday 31 October!

As is tradition, we celebrate Melbourne Cup Eve at Rotary Club of St Ives. It's an occasion for partners and friends to come and join in our fun. It's an occasion to pull out the fashionable finery to celebrate the Melbourne Cup and the chance to win some prizes!

This year is a little different so expect the unexpected. This is OUR MELBOURNE CUP night with the usual sweepstake tickets up for offer and of course fashions off the field being awarded with prizes. Due to it also being Halloween there are a few EXTRA TREATS to eat to make the night sweeter.

This week at Rotary - Emergency medicine

Looking forward to learning more about what life is like working in the Emergency Department at a major Sydney hospital. Dr Greg McDonald from the SAN Emergency is our guest speaker and someone with a wealth of knowledge, understanding and compassion for the clients who visit an emergency department. We are indeed fortunate to live in a country with excellent health services and especially fortunate to live in the North Shore where the SAN offers our families such outstanding medical care.

What to know the latest about the eradication of Polio?

Monday 24 October is World Polio Day and your opportunity to join a live steam on the computer to hear the latest statistics and information about our fight against Polio. You can register at this URL: http://www.endpolio.org

St Ives Rotary Four-Way Test Writing Competition

Posted by Di Barnes

Last Friday was the closing date for the St Ives Four-Way Test Writing Competition. Pleased to advise there were 57 entries submitted and all of them look very interesting.

A quick glance through them reveals some excellent examples of student writing and clearly some good higher order thinking and reflections. It is always good to hear from our youth and especially interesting for us to hear what young people today think of the Rotary Four-Way Test as a set of guiding principles.

Our thanks go the executive of the school for supporting this initiative and in particular to Rebecca Smith, Head Teacher English who has coordinated the competition in the school and led the promotion among teachers and students.

If any member is interested in reading these essays please be in touch with Di. Every essay will be kept and will be able for members to read. We are hoping to have the winners of the competition come to one of our meetings and read their winning entries. There will be more information shared in the coming weeks.

Rotarians involved in judging this competition are: Di Barnes, Lyndall King and Grahame Rivett. The external adviser for the finalists is Victoria Twead, a ‘New York Times Best Seller’ author. You can learn more about Vitoria Twead and her books at: http://www.victoriatwead.com

Rotary International Parramatta

It may have been a relatively small group who attended the Rotary International headquarters in Parramatta, but everyone was delighted with what they learned about Rotary – and of course delighted with the fabulous BBQ put on for them.

Rotary International is such a huge organization that it takes years for members to have a broad grasp of the possibilities for doing good using Rotary structures and opportunities.

There’s an old saying … “the more you know the more you now you don’t know” and I would suggest that no matter how many years you've been a Rotarian there is always something new to learn and experience.

Looking forward to our meeting this week

Looking forward to hearing Professor Steven Freehand discuss "Is the International Criminal Court a good idea?" Tuesday 11 October at our combined meeting with the Rotary Club of Turramurra. Members are reminded the change of meeting time is 6.15pm.

October Rotary Down Under

Don't miss reading the fabulous articles in our latest edition!

September edition of Rotary Down Under

Look out for your September edition of Rotary Down Under arriving this week!

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Grahame Rivett

Posted on Aug 28, 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Derek Molloy

Posted on Aug 27, 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Murray Lennon

Posted on Aug 25, 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Di Barnes

Don't forget!

Posted on Aug 23, 2016

Don't forget to book your tickets today at comedyforacause.net/RSI

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Gavin Laws

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Vin Robinson

Posted on Aug 19, 2016

Rotary Club of St Ives 2016 'Four-Way Test' Competition Launched

The Rotary Club of St Ives 2016 'Four-Way Test' Competition was launched at St Ives High School this week. The competition is open to students in Years 7-11 at St Ives High School. This is the first time we have held a writing competition of this type and we are very interested to hear what the youth of today has to say about the relevance of the Four-Way Test to 21st Century students. Details of the prize money, closing dates, Entry Form, Permission Note and poster with details of the criteria are available on this website (left-hand bar under 'Home Page Download Files'. Any further inquiries should be directed to Di Barnes, Public Relations Director, Rotary Club of St Ives.

Launch of St Ives Rotary 2016 'Four-Way Test' Writing Competition

Posted on Aug 19, 2016

Tuesday this week the Rotary Club of St Ives 2016 'Four-Way Test' Writing Competition was launched at St Ives High School assembly. The competition is only open to students in Years 7-11 at St Ives High School. Details below and the Entry and Permission Forms are available for downloading on this website - see left column for document downlloads.

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Robert Walker

Posted on Aug 19, 2016

Service Above Self - Lyndall King

Posted on Aug 18, 2016

Congratulations and thank you Lyndall King

on your anniversary of joining Rotary six years ago today.

It's great having you as part of the team

at the Rotary Club of St Ives!

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Bruce Farnsworth

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Barry Barnes

Posted on Aug 17, 2016

Congratulations of Service Above Self Brian Coleman!

We salute and celebrate our Past President and Past District Governor, Brian Coleman who celebrates being a member of Rotary for 28 years on Wednesday 17 August. Congratulations and thank you Brian!

Each St Ives Rotarian is thinking about new members!

Posted on Aug 16, 2016

For our meeting Wednesday 24 August our members are thinking about who they can invite along to our meeting with a view to joining Rotary Club of St Ives. We are on a campaign drive for new members - the more we have the more good we can do to help others.

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Lindsay Smith

Posted on Aug 16, 2016

This Wednesday - 17 August

Posted on Aug 16, 2016

WE NEED EVERY MEMBER TO ATTEND OUR MEETING WEDNESDAY 17 AUGUST 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Russell Crofts

Posted on Aug 15, 2016

Rotary International Exchange Student Program

Posted on Aug 15, 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Greg Rampo

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Peter Lorschy

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - John Tainsh

Happy Birthday Russell Crofts

Hope you have a fabulous day Russell Crofts!

Best wishes from all your friends at the Rotary Club of St Ives.

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Brian Coleman

Congratulations!

Posted on Aug 11, 2016

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Bhuvan Unhelkar

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - David James

Look out for your latest Down Under

Your Rotary Down Under August 2016 Issue 586 should be in your letterbox today or tomorrow! Read about Operation Dog Food: A new project benefitting man's best friend!

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - John Steel

In addition to being the Treasurer at the Rotary Club of St Ives, John also serves on the Rotary District Board. As a Past President of Rotary St Ives John is always a valued mentor for incoming Presidents and the 'go to guy' when we need expert advice about any Rotary policies.

A very important event at Rotary Club of St Ives

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Harold Morgan

Harold Morgan is our President Elect and has thrown himself into Rotary with gusto since joining in 2013! He has been the Chair for our Food and Wine Festival the last two years and is known as the King of the BBQ at Bunnings (and any other location!). As important as all these things are Harold is probably best known as being Mr Nice Guy who is a colourful character and always ready with a smile!

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Joanne

What's on at Rotary Club of St Ives this coming Wednesday

Happy Birthday to our Club Secretary Judy!

Wishing Judy the happiest of birthdays!

The Waratah - 10 August has been sent to you as an email

Reminder to check your emails for the latest edition The Waratah this weekend. If you know anyone who would like to receive a weekly email of The Waratah leave a message with the email details on this site and we'll add you to the mailing list. We can never have too many 'Friends of Rotary'! And if you are interested to learn more about joining our club just let us know ... "We can never have too many Rotarians"!

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Vien Nguyen

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Marcel James

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Lyndall King

"St Ives Rotarians Speak Out" - Lance Kirkwood

1 August 2016 - Launch of "St Ives Rotarians Speak Out"

To launch our project “St Ives Rotarians Speak Out” it seemed fitting to begin with our eldest and our only Foundation Member of the Rotary Club of St Ives – Wal Edwards OAM. Wal is a living legend and continues to be an inspiration to all who know him. Wal is 99 years young and as vibrant and wise a person as you will ever meet. His words echo and resonate with all Rotarians, as too do his actions – he puts his philosophy of life into action. Now retired, Wal still ‘lives Rotary’ every day! Here’s what he has to share about the reasons and benefits of being a Rotarian, which he believes are universal principles for happiness in life.

Everyone who meets Wal Edwards can’t help but be touched by this gentle man of wisdom, grace and generosity. At 99 years of age Wal continues to be inspired to give ‘Service Above Self’, to make a difference every day. He lives to give and he is one of the happiest people you will ever meet. Wal is the best advertisement for Rotary you could ever find! He is a very proud Rotarian and the Rotary Club of St Ives is proud to call his ours. Wal will be turning 100 on 22 November 2016.

What’s on 3 August: Brian Wexham – Skills Australia – HORNSBY RSL CLUB

Reflections on meeting - 27 July 2016

Looking forward to a fabulous night at Rotary Wednesday

Reflection on last week's meeting - 20 July 2016

Posted on Jul 23, 2016

Past President Bhuvan Unhelkar truly is a global citizen with rich experiences and an interesting and very valuable perspective on the Rotary family around the world.

Bhuvan is not only an outstanding educator and communicator, but knows how to prepare presentations worthy of attention.Perhaps the most powerful thing though was what he had to say to accompany the presentation – truly inspiring Bhuvan!Best known to us as our ‘always happy’ Past President, Bhuvan truly is a man of the world as his presentation demonstrated.

His Rotary experiences overseas are rich and varied. From being part of a team going into India to distribute vaccines to End Polio, to makeup meetings in Malaysia and working with children of people in prison in Brazil Bhuvan has seen a lot of ‘Rotary in action’. These experiences with Rotary go a long way to giving Bhyvan a very special perspective, of what it means to be a member of the Rotary family internationally.

Being a bit of a traditionalist himself, Bhuvan enjoys the many hallmarks that make attending a Rotary meeting in any part of the world feel familiar. Despite our cultural, language and historical differences our common ground is very unifying wherever you go on the planet it would seem. It would also seem that Bhuvan is doing all he can to meet as many of the 1.2 members of Rotary worldwide.

Bhuvan gave us a powerful analogy to consider when talking about Rotary – a tree! Each section holding an important Rotary value and symbolic meaning:

Leaves – our diversity

Branches – our fellowship

Trunk – our integrity

Roots – our service

We’ve become very accustomed to having Bhuvan around these past few months and when he leaves to go back to Florida his presence and energy will be sincerely missed. The one thing we know though, wherever he is on the planet, he will consistently give of his best in the service of others.

Russell perhaps best summed up what the audience felt at the end of the presentation. Bhuvan Unhelkar is an extraordinary Rotarian and a truly extraordinary man. With so much to share and generously to give – Bhuvan epitomizes what it means to be a Rotarian.

Have you booked your ticket yet?

Remember to book your tickets online for this great event!

Don't forget to book!

You need to book your ticket online and remember you can grab a great meal for $10 an hour before the show.

Reflections on last Wednesday 13 July

What a FABULOUS night!

Especially wonderful to catch up with some ‘old’ friends

as well as welcoming our ‘new’ friends!

Looking forward to our meeting this week:

St Ives Rotarians Serving Humanity

An outstanding guest speaker last week!

Any spare books to donate to Lifeline?

Lifeline needs more books for their Book Fair - great time to clear out your bookcases for a good cause!

A date for your diary - an event not to be missed!

A night of fabulous fun and fellowship!

A date for your diary - an event not to be missed!

A fabulous evening of fun and fellowship!

Looking forward to our meeting this week:

Looking forward to this week

Thank you Past President Murray Lennon - Congratulations President Peter Lorschy

On Wednesday 22 June the members and friends of the Rotary Club of St Ives celebrated their Changeover Dinner. Thank you Past President Murray Lennon and congratulations President Peter Lorschy. Looking forward to a fabulous 2016-2017 Rotary year.

Impromptu Guest Speaker

Reflections on Meeting 15 June 2016

Looking forward to our guest speaker this week!

So good to see Bhuvan back at St Ives Rotary

It is so good to see our Past President Bhuvan back in Australia and importantly back at St Ives Rotary this week!

We are delighted that he will be around for a few more weeks as he enjoys America’s summer vacation back in his home-town. Our loss has certainly been Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise’s gain!

Buhvan was delighted to give President Murray Lennon the banner from his new Rotary club in Florida. The only negative about having you back with us for a short period is that we have to say goodbye to you again and are once more reminded of how much we miss your cheerful company and wonderful humour!

What an impressive Rotary Peace Fellow!

Reflections on Wednesday 8 June 2016:

Where to begin? At age 31 years Sharon Edington has a perspective on the world and rich life experiences that very few people gain in a lifetime!

She is an outstanding ambassador for Rotary and in particular for the Rotary Peace Fellow program. She attributes many of her achievements to what Rotary has invested in her. In truth, Rotary facilitated her opportunity to grow, but there is something very special about this young woman that goes beyond her achievements.

Sharon explained the Rotary selection process to become a Rotary Peace Fellow and it clearly is rigorous. Undertaking a Masters Degree at the University of Bradford in the UK complemented the volunteer work Sharon had already done. The opportunity to study with like-minded people from around the world who shared the common goal of making a difference and supporting disadvantaged communities was a defining time.

Sharon profiled four people from her cohort Peace Fellows class (2013-2014) and it was evident from her descriptions of them as people, as well as their accomplishments, that those enrolled in the Masters course were all exceptional humanitarians. It was also evident that Sharon continues to invest intellectually and socially with the network she formed during her studies.

There is little doubt that a young woman who has the following experience at such a young age has even greater things ahead of her:

Ministry of Education, Atacama Desert, Chile (6.5 months 2006)
Youth Movement for Peace and Non-violence, Sierra Leone (3 months 2007)
Deputy Project Manager, Agriculture sector, PNG (4 years 2007-2011)
Action Aid Palestine, Wet Bank (2 years 2011-2013)
CARE International, Tbilisi, Georgia (2013)
Rotary peace Fellow (2014-2015
Current role – her ‘dream job’ as she describes it, is working for Act for Peace (2015)

Her service to community, focused personal and professional commitment to humanity requires high-level leadership skills, communication skills and personal attributes that are rare. By supporting peace-builders Rotary International is investing in exceptional people who are ready, willing and capable of bringing significant changes to the world.

Sharon Edingon is a Rotary Peace Fellow and a person who exemplifies all that is admirable about the work of Rotary in the world.

She went one step further before leaving us by inviting us to consider how she might be able to help us in the future …. now that is something for us to consider!

Come and meet a Rotary Peace Fellow!

An event not to be missed

A NOT TO BE MISSED EVENT!

A deal too good to miss - act before 6 June!

A special deal to save on your registration to Rotary Convention in Atlanta - but you need to book by 6 June to get the special price of $265!

This extra-special early registration rate of $265 for the 2017 Rotary Convention is in honor of Arch Klumph's 6 June birthday, and the $26.50 first contribution to Rotary's endowment. If you are thinking about attending here's an offer too good to miss!

Rotary Down Under - June 2016 Edition

Look out for the latest edition of Rotary Down Under

in your letterbox this week!

June 2016 Issue 584

Message from District Governor Gina

THE DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S NEWSLETTER

BE A GIFT TO THE WORLD

My Friends in Rotary,

As the time to hand over the baton to incoming Governor Bruce rapidly approaches, I look back at the past 12 months with a great deal of satisfaction and gratitude. I have been very fortunate in that it has been a very enjoyable and relatively incident-free time for me; we’ve had no major natural disasters such as bushfires or floods in our District, I’ve had a great team of talented and dedicated members who have gone out of their way to ensure that the year has been as successful as it could possibly have been, and Harold and I have been overwhelmed, and humbled, by the warmth and dedication that all members have offered us where-ever we have been this year. District 9685 truly is a fantastic District and it’s been a great honour for me to serve as your Governor!

As you no doubt appreciate, a large proportion of my time this past year has been spent visiting Clubs and attending some of the fantastic programs and projects that you have carried out. To me, this has been by far the best part of my year as Governor. Harold and I have been blown away learning of the wonderful work that you do in the name of Rotary and I sincerely thank you for your dedication and commitment to making the world a better place. You have certainly risen to President Ravi’s challenge to Be A Gift to the World!

It was a privilege for me to be able to recognise some of the great work that you have done this year - at the Presidents’ Meeting last week - when the District Awards for 2015-16were presented. Congratulations to those clubs who received the winning trophy in each category, and also for Clubs who received a Certificate of Meritorious Service (Unfortunately, there can only be one winner!). Whilst a couple of the awards are judged automatically from information provided on the web (Membership Growth, Website and Bulletin Awards) most are selected from applications that are submitted to the appropriate Avenues of Service Chair. Not all Clubs seek recognition – they just ‘get on and do it’, so if your Club didn’t receive an award, maybe it’s because you didn’t put in an application! However, I think it’s great for Clubs to be recognised for the hard work you do, and I do encourage you all to consider applying next year.

I know many of you are in wind-down mode at the moment and are thinking about the year ahead, but this hasn’t halted the huge number of functions that have been held in our District over the past month or so. Harold and I have been to a number of community recognition nights – Pride of Workmanship, Community / Unsung Heroes, Vocational Excellence and Police Officer of the Year Awards nights, and also events to recognise community supporters of major events such as the Bobbin Head Classic (run jointly by Wahroonga, St Ives, Turramurra and Ku-ring-gai), Richmond’s thank you to the Volunteers who helped out at the Richmond Show, and Woy Woy’s thank you to their Opera in the Arboretum supporters. These have been very enjoyable evenings and are a great way to expose Rotary to the wider community and at the same time recognise worthy people in our local communities.

This last month also saw three very successful MUNA programs held throughout the District – on the Central Coast, at Baulkham Hills High and at Penrith High, and I congratulate everyone involved in organising and running these events – not to mention all the school teams who participated. The trouble that most teams went to, to accurately represent their assigned countries was outstanding and the debating skills of the students was very commendable. Maybe our District will sponsor the winner of the National MUNA again this year! Winter RYPEN is also coming up in a couple of weeks so if you have a last minute candidate, contact RYPEN Chair, Dave Clark, for details. I also had the privilege of congratulating the 20,000^th student to attend RYDA on the Central Coast recently. Another great program which is strongly supported by our District!

You will all be aware that District Changeover is being held on Saturday 25June at Hornsby RSL from 6pm for 6.30pm start. Just like Club Changeovers, the District Changeover is a celebration of the year that has passed and an opportunity to welcome in our new Governor, Bruce Lakin. It will be a fun night: we will be keeping the formalities to a minimum, there will be some entertainment, delicious food, a presentation of a few awards, and a great opportunity for fellowship. Cost is $50.00 per person which includes a two course meal and a drink on arrival. We are planning a photographic display of projects and activities carried out by clubs during the year and ask that each club sends in some (up to a dozen) good quality, high resolution photos of your signature events. Please send these to changeoverphoto s@rotarydistrict9685.org.au. The aim is to have a large cross section of Club activities showcased. It would be wonderful to have all clubs represented at the Changeover dinner and I encourage you all to register as soon as you can - registrations close on 17 June.....REGISTER HERE.

As I said at the beginning of the year, it’s not been my year, it’s been OUR year, and I’m merely the conductor of the orchestra – you’ve played the music, I’ve just helped you keep in tune! Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity, and for the fantastic support you have shown to Harold and me. It truly has been a once in a life-time experience and we have so many wonderful memories!

I look forward to seeing you on 25June.

Gina Growden

Governor RI District 9685, 2015-16

Service Above Self

Congratulations and Thank You

David James

for 33 years of

Service Above Self to Rotary!

Meeting Wednesday 1 June - Jan Leta: Endangered Animals

Reflections on speakers - 25 May 2016

Jan Leta - Endangered Animals

Fabulous Evening Wednesday 18 May!

Posted by Di Barnes

The combined meeting of Ku-ring-gai, St Ives, Wahroonga and Turramurra Rotary Clubs was an evening to make all who attended feel proud when the cheques were distributed to the nominated charities.

It was a moving night as we heard from each of the charities who received cheques about their organisations and it made us realise just how significant this event is to our fundraising efforts and what a difference it makes.

Photo below shows Peter Lorschy presenting a cheque to Dr John Carter from the Cromehurst Foundation, the St Ives Rotary Club nominated charity for funds from the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic.

Rotary Clubs of Ku-ring-gai, St Ives, Wahroonga and Turramurra combined meeting Wednesday 18 May

Wearing Orange Today!

Posted on May 11, 2016

The Rotary Club of St Ives is PROUD of our two Rotarian SES Volunteers:

MURRAY and GREG!!

Outstanding examples of Service Above Self across the community.

Wearing Orange for you guys today!

Changeover Dinner - Saturday 25 June

Chatswood International - Movie Evening

The Rotary Chatswood International invites you to the private screening of the premiere of Alice Through the Looking Glass

Thursday 26 May 7.00pm

Events Cinema, Level 4, Top Ryde City Shopping Centre

109 – 135 Blaxland Road, Ryde

Admission is $25 per person

To secure tickets, please deposit funds to the account below.

BANK: WESTPAC

Account name: ROTARY CLUB OF CHATSWOOD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED

BSB: 032090 Account no: 747824

Reference number: ***** Please put in your name *****

For individual/ group bookings please provide your name/ names of your guests, your mobile number and

email address along with your deposit confirmation to contact person/s below:

Yvonne Chua – Rotary Chatswood International at vonney.chua@gmail.com

Michelle Chua – Rotary Chatswood International at michelle_.chua@hotmail.com

Anthony Ching – Rotary Chatswood International on 0416218989

Amanda Barnes and 'The Lost Art of Saying Thank You'

Amanda Barnes is a young woman who has ‘found Rotary’ and it changed her life. To quote her … “I love Rotary and everything about Rotary – it changed my life and most of who I am now.” Quite an very impressive statement to make.

Amanda started her presentation with a simple question: What is gratitude? And gave us the Latin root, ‘Gratis’, pleasing and thankful and to show appreciation for and return to kindness. So began the discussion about why we should live a life of gratitude.

Perhaps it is the transformational opportunity to put into practice Service Above Self that enabled Amanda to have a level of appreciation that has opened her eyes to the value of saying thankyou. Perhaps it is the time she spent volunteering in an orphanage in Sri Lanka that gave her some insights into the meaning and value of feeling gratitude. Whatever it is that that influenced her to feel so deeply about gratitude is irrelevant as she has launched herself passionately into all that Rotary has to offer youth and is dedicated to making her mark in the world.

Apart from highlighting the importance of living a life of gratitude and the using “thank you” to express appreciation, Amanda has learned a lot about Rotary and perhaps the following statement best sums up the message Amanda said to us this week: “I joined Rotary to change lives and the one I changed the most was ‘mine’ “.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others” (Cicero)

Derek thanking Amanda Barnes

How Thankful are you? How often do you show it?

Amanda Woods (Barnes) talks about The Forgotten Art of ‘Thank You’

How thankful are you? How often do you show it?”

This is a question we probably all need to contemplate a little more closely and we get the chance to consider the importance of being thankful and expressing our thanks on Wednesday 4 May. Amanda Woods (Barnes) is a young woman with a lot to be thankful for and who has been highly successful in all she does, including a commitment for Rotary that is rarely achieved. She is also a woman who knows the power of old values and importance of ‘please and thank you’. She will challenge us to think about how thankful we are and how often we show it … and importantly why it might be important to contemplate!

Rotary Down Under - May 2016 Edition

Look out for Rotary Down Under ... should be in your letterbox very soon! As always a great read!

Reflections on speaker 27 April - Jim Hawkins

Posted by Di Barnes

GUEST SPEAKER: JIM HAWKINS FROM THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

There is no doubt about the Rotary Club of St Ives coordinating their speakers! Sensational serendipity to arrange a speaker to link with ANZAC Day this week to talk about Australia’s first submarines on the day after the Prime Minister announced to winner of the future submarines to replace the current Collins Class! For more information see: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/pm-malcolm-turnbull-on-50bn-future-submarines-project/news-story/be2a8da55f6066ba070454d667729c04

Jim Hawkins, from the National Maritime Museum shared his knowledge and passion for Australia’s first submarines. AE1 and AE2 departed Portsmouth, England on 2 March 1914, sailing via Suez and Singapore. Beset with minor problems during their delivery, the two submarines arrived in Sydney on 24 May 1914, just three months before the outbreak of World War I. It was a baptism of fire as they were immediately deployed to support the war effort.

War was declared on 5 August 1914 and on 19 August Australia deployed: 9 warships, 2 submarines, 1 store ship, 1 hospital ship, 6 colliers and 1500 troops – an impressive response for a newly federated country! AE1 and AE2 were assigned to operations in New Guinea waters at the outbreak of World War I. One month later, AE1 and all onboard were gone. AE1 was the first submarine in the Royal Australia Navy and the RAN’s first war loss. She was also the first British submarine to be lost in World War 1. Her pennant number was 80.

After the loss of AE1, AE2 was offered and accepted for the use by the Admiralty. Departing Albany, Western Australia on 31 December 1914 with the second Anzac convoy she was towed across the Indian Ocean by the transport ship (formerly HMAS BERRIMA) to the Middle East Station. On arrival in the Mediterranean she joined the British naval squadron engaged in operation off Gallipoli. AE2 was the second submarine in RAN, and the first British built submarine to make the passage through the Dardanelles into the Sea of Marmara. Two previous attempts to break through into the Sea of Marmara had failed. AE2 was the RAN’s first loss by enemy action and the second and final loss of World War 1. Up to the time of her loss, AE2 had logged some 35,000 nautical miles, mostly under war conditions. Her pennant number was 81.

The Rabaul Campaign, which involved both the Navy and Military, has local significance to the St Ives/Wahroonga area because of Capt. BCA Pockley MID, AAMC. Rotarian Derek Molloy shared his significant personal knowledge of Pockley’s legacy.

Greg Rappo (right) presenting our guest Jim Hawkins (centre) with a Certification of Appreciation with President Murray Lennon (left)

Latest Waratah emailed today!

The latest copy of your Waratah for Wednesday 30 March meeting has been sent to your email account today.

Reflections on 23 March Meeting

Reflections on our guest speaker 23 March

Leah Royle Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Leah Royle is such an impressive public speaker! Her knowledge about Australian wildlife diversity and extinction crisis of our native fauna is outstanding. The work of Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) to deliver value for money is also highly impressive. AWC delivers results by establishing sanctuaries and delivering outcomes and protection of vulnerable wildlife against feral cats.

Their unique leadership in land management is demonstrated by the following key facts:

AWC manages more cat and fox-free land than any other organisation in Australia.
AWC has established the two largest feral herbivore-free areas on mainland Australia.
AWC delivers the largest non-government fire management program in Australia.
AWC have undertaken more translocation of threatened wildlife than any other non-government organisation.

See more at: http://www.australianwildlife.org/field-programs.aspx#sthash.C7TDSIsx.dpuf

AWC manage 23 properties across Australia with 80 staff (80% of whom are field officers) on a budget of $13 - $14 million per year. Given Australia is the world’s most bio-diverse county we need to ensure extinction protection of our animals and biodiversity for future generations.

Around 85% of AWC total operating expenditure is invested in conservation, with only 15% on administration and fundraising. In contrast, every other major environment organisation in Australia allocates more than 40% of total operating expenditure to administration and fundraising.

John presenting Leah with our Certificate of Appreciation.

You are invited!

You are invited!

The Rotary Club of St Ives would like to invite you and your friends to book to see the film “Girl Rising “ at 7.40 pm on Friday 22 April at the Barker College theatre The cost is $15 per person and Barker College is providing use of the theatre free of charge and has also generously offered to provide guests on arrival with complimentary tea, coffee and a muffin. Bookings can be made at: http://www.trybooking.com/KSBQ or http://www.trybooking.com/187970

This film promotes education for girls and gender equality especially in Asia and Africa. Room to Read Youth Ambassador in Australia for Girl Rising, Josh Lorschy will speak briefly before the film.

All funds raised will be donated to “Room to Read”, which focuses on literacy and gender equality by building and resourcing schools and libraries and publishing books in local languages in 10 countries in Asia and Africa. More details are on www.roomtoread.org

Check your email for the latest Warath

RYLA 2016 Reflections

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Emily Butcher and Darren Zeng

The RYLA Experience

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If we ever doubted the value of sending candidates to RYLA there was no denying that the two young representatives from Rotary St Ives benefited from the RYLA experience this year. Darren Zeng and Emily Butcher demonstrated to us the value of a teamwork approach with their presentation this week. Both excelled at bringing a fresh and dynamic enthusiasm to their talk that was engaging and informative.

They now have joined a select group who hold the ‘secret’ confidential about exactly what happens at a RYLA conference! They emphasized the most important lesson of the week was about self-understanding and personal growth. The skill of being able to work as a team member for the benefit of a task was another theme that resonated with them and clearly they valued both the hands-on experiences that helped them learn first-hand exactly the importance of this quality. Emily and Darren confirmed it was a lot of fun, but equally it was personally challenging and at times confronting. They made friendships that they have continued to enjoy since the camp.

Both are already actively contributing to others through their volunteer work and it was evident that they are the kind of young Australian that will continue to make valuable contributions to organisations in the future. One question from the floor firmly planted the notion to them that they would make wonderful Rotaract members!

There is little doubt that Darren and Emily are fine examples of what investing in youth leadership can do for self-esteem, long-term goal setting and an ability to accelerate lessons in real-life. No matter what path their lives will take in the future we feel confident that that RYLA experience will have made a difference in helping them become better leaders and to make their mark in society.

Looking forward to Rotary this week ...

Supporting Ku-ring-gai's Got Talent!

The Rotary Club of St Ives is supporting this sensational initiative

of Ku-rng-gai Council.

Such a wonderful opportunity to showcase some truly exceptional

talent in our community!

Rotary Down Under Issue 581 arrives this week

Look out for your copy of ROTARY DOWN UNDER Issue 581 arriving by post to your home this week. You will see St Ives Past President, Jerry Casburn's photo and article about his new appointment to the RAWCS Board. Congratulations Jerry!

March is Water and Sanitation month and there's a fabulous article about 'Rotary's new war on unsafe water' and ways you can become involved through a new Water Sanitation and Hygiene e-Club. The new look magazine is certainly being appreciated by members - they've set the 'bar' high with articles, format, positive articles and great stories people can relate to. As always great reading in our March edition!

Don't miss getting your Entertainment Book

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK - UPDATE FROM DEREK

There is now only 1 Sydney book now that covers Sydney and Surrounds 2016 | 2017 including Sydney CBD, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Southern Suburbs, Northern Suburbs and Northern Beaches.

Available from 04 April '16

Book Membership Book $70.00

Digital Membership Digital $70.00

I need to tell the publishers in the next 2 weeks how many books we want and whether hard copy or digital. If you or your friends want one of the books, please let me know ASAP and whether you want hard copy or digital.

FABULOUS Food and Wine Festival

CONGRATULATIONS ST IVES ROTARY!

THE ST IVES FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL WAS A HUGE SUCCESS

A fabulous day on the St Ives Village Green Sunday 6 March.

The weather was sunny and warm and the wine, food and lifestyle

stalls were stunning. Our Rotarians showed what teamwork looks

like and the community had a happy day of relaxation and fun for

the whole family.

A date for your diary ...

It's the final Countdown ....

EVERYTHING IS READY

The St Ives Food and Wine Festival is this Sunday 6 March

SEE YOU THERE!

March Waratah mailed to you today!

For the action of St Ives Incoming Board Members

Come share some wine, cheese and chocolates with your meal

Oh what a night!

REFLECTIONS ON OUR MEETING WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY

ACTING COMMISSIONER OF STATE EMERGENCY SERVICES

GREG NEWTON

There was obviously an exceptional quality in the young 17 year old volunteer who joined the Queanbeyan SES all those years ago … for today Greg Newton is now the Acting Commissioner for SES in NSW.

Greg is a relaxed, competent and highly skilled communicator who held our members engrossed! His highly professional presentation covered so much about the roles of SES and he skillfully punctuated facts with narratives that gave a very personal dimension to the SES and showcased why he was chosen for the important position he currently holds.

Greg resides in Kieraville during the week and commutes back to his family in Canberra on weekends. Clearly keeping the balances in life is something Greg is very adept at doing. With 234 SES units around NSW, multiple government agencies and departments to collaborate with, he is someone who thrives on high level work demands. He values the skills and qualities of volunteers and the importance of teamwork. His leadership style is one of transparency, open dialogue and collaboration.

Greg explained the Legislated roles of the SES as being responsible for:

Floods which are perhaps the trickiest for volunteers as they need to work out how to rescue people without putting their lives in danger.
Storms are all to familiar to us and Greg recalled memories of the two weeks he spent in 1991 working out of the location where we were hosted tonight!
Tsunami warning are monitored at Wollogong headquarters and SES works closely with Geo Science Australia and data from DART buoys about seismic activity under water.

In addition to the legislative roles SES are seen in our community doing any of the following roles:

Road Crash Rescue including cutting victims out of cars with 80 specially trained teams throughout the state.
Rescue and Community First Response means SES are often the team to arrive ahead of ambulance services and specialised teams are trained to sustain life until paramedics arrive.
Land Search teams assist our Police in searching for missing persons and have so much experience in this type of work that they often take the lead role in the direction of searches.
Alpine Rescue is close to Greg being from that part of the state. Above snow-line rescues present exceptional physical challenges and often require SES staying out overnight in freezing temperatures with those they are rescuing.
Vertical Rescue is another highly specialised unit with teams able to work with a very high level of synergy and collaboration.

Greg paid homage to the SES volunteers, acknowledging their service not only took their time, but also inconveniently impacts on the lives of their family and friends. Greg talked about community resilience and bouncing back after a significant event and the importance of working ‘with’ communities. SES needs to reflect the community and has volunteers from all ethnic groups and continues to reflect the diversity of our state. It is truly a reflection of our diversity and our strength as a community.

Greg Newton may be a leader with an exceptionally groomed background to equip him for the role, but having listened to him talk about SES, it is obvious he is also a truly exceptional human being who values the volunteers in the SES and respects the complexity of the organisation he serves. Greg now holds the top position and his vision for the future qualifies him as being a man of vision, a man of genuine values and an admirable leader of our SES.

At the end of the meeting Greg Newton had a special Long Service Award for our President Murray Lennon for 25 years of service to SES.

Greg Rappo was also acknowledged for his services to community and recently was one of four people in the state to be given an award for services to the community and was described as an SES ‘treasure’.

Proud to be a Rotarian Celebrating 111 Year Anniversary

23 February 2016 Rotary Celebrates 111 Years!

Our next meeting ...

Reflections on 17 February Meeting

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Reflections on Meeting 17 February 2016

What a difference a year makes!

Laura is still the same wonderful young woman we said goodbye to a year ago when she left for Denmark – and yet she is so different! Clearly the year past has given Laura a wealth of life experiences that will remain with her a lifetime. She has grown in so many wonderful ways and yet has still retained that gorgeous ‘girl next door’ warmth and candor.

We’ve been treated to monthly reports from Denmark over the last year as Laura generously shared her Danish life with us with an honesty and insight that was refreshingly wonderful. Tonight as we listened to the year that was, you couldn’t help but feel a tinge of pride in the young lady before us. Clearly a girl with enormous potential to make her mark I the world, and in her own way already has. She has grown in confidence, ability to express her ideas with clarity and gained a personal insight into her personal hopes and dreams for the future.

Whatever the road ahead for Laura one thing is for sure - her year as a Rotary Cultural Exchange Student has enriched her life in significant ways. She in turn was an outstanding Ambassador for both Australia and Rotary Downunder!

Thank you for all your monthly updates over the last year Laura and for confirming again what an outstanding choice we made when selecting you to be our Rotary Exchange Student. We will look with interest to hear about your life’s journey into the future.

Lindfield Rotary Club Fun Run

Welcome Home Laura!

Tim Wilson - Australian Human Rights Commissioner

Posted on Feb 11, 2016

Tim Wilson – Human Rights Commissioner

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Being a Human Rights Commissioner requires big shoes, broad shoulders and clarity of intellect that few possess. Tim Wilson has it all – plus charisma and charm that is more befitting a diplomatic and an astute politician!

Tim was right at home with a large audience of Rotarians this week – his mother, a Rotarian and former District Governor in Melbourne must be proud!

Tim would argue that every time we enlarge government we squeeze out the potential of increased human initiative and it is the belief in human cultural accountability that is the essence of Tim’s perspective on human rights.

Whether it is native title for economic development, property rights, maximising individual liberties, social cohesion, trans-gender issues, freedom of association or asylum seekers in detention centres, the issues are challenging.

Property rights are central to Human Rights discussions, as property builds capital and fundamentally Tim passionately believes in maximising individual liberties.

Tim challenges us to consider what we should tolerate and to consider what we do to drive improvements in human rights. He is an advocate who believes so many of our challenges cannot be resolved politically, but rather the strongest power we have as a nation is our cultural standards and values.

Tim considers the racist card is often a con or a lie and that Australians by enlarge are a generous people and we should not undervalue the power of how we act culturally to be effective. He advocates for developing a culture of mutual respect, rather that legislating how people should behave. He urged us to reflect on what we value and invest heavily in those traits in our society that are fundamentally good by holding each other to account. What is most effective in this country is what is in the hearts and minds of its people and we need to empower people to use cultural responsibility rather than government to encroach further into the lives of its citizens.

Tim’s intellectual strength is clearly rational thinking and a deep understanding of the principles of philosophy that engage good minds in issues such as human rights vs social justice or justice vs punish or rehabilitation and concludes more should be resolved outside the courtroom through mediation than within it.

Questions from the floor about common sense vs law for the disabled and children in detention centres did not phase him, but he only got to skip across the tangled surface of the breath of issues for consideration.

Australia’s human rights issues are in good hands and being competently upheld to avoid political interference into the lives of freedom of the individual. When you listen to the voice of Tim Wilson, you are listening to an intellect and wisdom that does justice to the position of Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner.

Rotarian Tim Wilson from St Ives Rotary (left) giving the vote of thanks to Tim Wilson, Human Rights Commissioner (right)

Look what's happening this week!

The Possibility Project

Kath and Kim came to Rotary to speak about The Possibility Project and as their story was shared it became very evident that they share many values and ideals of Rotarians – to make a difference! Although they modestly say they are just a couple of mums from Wahroonga, it is clear that when you put passionate commitment and heart into a good cause something extraordinary occurs.

The Possibility Project is evidence of how an idea shared sparks a journey that transformers those involved with it. The work they do in India is about supporting social justice through enterprise. Their mission is to expand potential for every person within the community they support. This multi-tiered approach has included: Feeding 4,000 people a day, building vocational training centres, creating work enterprise opportunities for mums and youth.

As Kim said, their philosophy has been to ‘step into a space of uncertainty with deep courage’ and to ‘find the right people you can do it with’. Whether it is compostable sanitation pads for women, making bead necklaces, or reworking old sari’s, these women have embraced their own fears of failure, learned that you just have to believe your efforts will be enough.

They are not about raising donations, but rather investing in human potential of some of the most marginalised people in India, the slum communities. Their enterprise initiatives provide opportunities for people in to use their skills, to learn now vocational skills and to grow self-dignity and independence in the collaboration and teamwork process.

One of the most important things they have discovered is that to be relevant and successful today organisations need to evolve, and reinvent to engage community. The Possibility Project needed to prioritise efforts to be most meaningful and relevant and to bring others along with their ideas.

It was inspiring to hear how two women from Wahroonga can make a long term, sustained difference. An important difference that breaks the cycle of victim hopelessness through uniting a community into one with a shared vision and cooperation for mutual benefit. Their enterprise projects supports individuals psychologically, as well as facilitating physical improvement in life quality. Perhaps most importantly they have given people the ‘belief in possibilities’ and changing ‘perceptions of hope’ for the future. They have been successful on so many levels.

We are proud to have The Possibility Project with us at the St Ives Food and Wine Festival. Be sure to visit their stall as all proceeds from items sold go directly back to their projects in India.

Please visit the website for more information: http://thepossibilityproject.com.au

Kath (left) and Kim (right)

Look out for our latest Rotary Down Under ...

Wednesday 3 February

Peter Kirkwood - Didgeridoo Master!

From the moment he put on his 'old black leather hat' Peter Kirkwood morphed into an extraordinary musician and story-teller! His warmth and humour entertained us and it is obvious he delights in sharing his knowledge and skills.

Apart from expertly playing a wide range of didgeridoo, from expensive trumpet to a piece of PVC pipe, he produced magical sounds from them all. He punctuated performance pieces with the sharing of a wealth of information about this amazing instrument! Here are just a few of the fascinating facts he shared:

Didgeridoo is thought to be the world’s oldest musical instrument, originating in Arnhem Land, NT.
Little evidence of didgeridoo being used as far south as the Alice Springs region of Australia, but traditionally never in the southern three quarters of the country.
Traditionally didgeridoos were made from eucalyptus tree trunks and limbs hollowed out, while still living, by termites, or from bamboo in the far north of Australia.
The word didgeridoo can be spelt many different ways, none of which are Aboriginal names for the instrument.
The word "didgeridoo" was a western word given to the instrument around 100 years ago.
Bamboo didgeridoos were quite common among groups in the far north of the Northern Territory. The word 'bamboo' is still used in traditional language by some Aborigines when referring to the instrument, though the word "didgeridoo" is becoming more popular.

If you were unlucky and not able to join us this week, you can see Peter performing on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydqH1Dirsk

Thank you for a wonderful evening Peter!

Celebrating Australia Day at Rotary Club of St Ives

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Wednesday 27 January

Peter Kirkwood

The Didgeridoo - history, making and playing

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We are in for a fun time at our Rotary meeting this week as Rotarian

Peter Kirkwood shares his love of the Didgeridoo with us

and we celebrate Australia Day this week!

Lessons from the Reserve Benches

After a highly successful career with the Reserve Bank, and a rich background with the Australian Army Reserves, Ken Broadhead is a man with many dimensions and clearly a unique professional and personal background that sets him apart from most men.

Ken shared interesting facts about the establishment of the Reserve Bank complimented by his involvement in the Army Reserves.

Lessons from the Reserve Benches was the title of Ken’s talk to us this week, however, perhaps it was in the final wrap of his talk when we got some of the most value lessons he had to share - his philosophic principles for life were gems:

It’s never as bad as you think
Get angry, then get over it
It can be done!
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision
Share credit
Stay calm
Be demanding
Never envy anyone
Self doubts are to be expected
Treat emails and social media like a poisonous snake
If you are in a hole stop digging
No time like the present

Thank you for sharing your wonderful insights and your pearls of wisdom Ken!

New Year Drinks hosted by President Murray Lennon and wife Helen

President Murray Lennon and his wife Helen, hosted members from the Rotary Club of St Ives Saturday 16 January for new year drinks. Our club might be a relatively small club by way of numbers, but there is no mistaking the very significant friendship shared by its members. A HUGE THANK YOU Murray and Helen, for your kind generosity, delicious food and your carefully chosen wines - today was very special for everyone.

Here are just a few photos taken today that capture yet another happy occasion shared by the members of The Rotary Club of St Ives.

New meeting venue for 2016

After many years of The Rotary Club of St Ives meeting at the Pymble Golf Club, we are moving our meeting venue to Canisius House, Mona Vale Road, St Ives. From our first meeting in 2016 we will be meeting at Canisius House.

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas from the Rotary Club of St Ives

Rotarians from the Rotary Club of St Ives

know how to sparkle and shine!

Merry Christmas

Get ready to sparkle and shine!

It's our Christmas party tomorrow night Wednesday 16 December!

Remember to bring your gift to go to the Tree of Joy

… and your party mood!

Fabulous night at Cafe Lyon

Enjoying a great meal together and wonderful company!

St Ives Rotary paying it forward for Christmas

If you are in the spirit of giving this Christmas, why not make a donation at our Christmas party this year as we do away with Kris Kringle and pay it forward by asking Rotarians to make a donation to The Rotary Foundation instead.

International Toast to Stamford St Martin's Rotary Club UK

Russell gave us the International Toast to Stamford St Martin's Rotary Club, United Kingdom where he was a guest while visiting his daughter and her family this year. Of interest this club has flexible membership so can have between 20-60 members coming for meetings. Sounds as though they are innovative in their efforts to attract and maintain members. One of their projects is Aqua Box which contains resources to clean 30,000 litres of water which is particularly useful in times of natural disasters. Fascinating talk - thanks Russell. Here's cheers to the Rotary Club of Stamford St Martin's!

Some Facts about The Rotary Foundation

Brian Coleman is a master of many things, and The Rotary Foundation is one of them! Brain's presentation about what is often referred to as the economic engine for Rotary International, helped renew everyone's enthusiasm for the work of The Rotary Foundation.

In 1917, Arch C Klumph from the Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, declared that “we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world in charitable, educational, and other avenues of community service.” His vision and a contribution of US$26.50 left over from the RI Convention helped to establish the charitable and humanitarian arm of our organisation, The Rotary Foundation.

However, it was not until 1947 that it really got going when Rotary International wished to honour the work of Paul Harris through the Paul Harris Society. Named after Rotary’s founder, the Paul Harris Society recognizes those who annually contribute US$1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, PolioPlus, or an approved Rotary Foundation grant. By joining the Paul Harris Society, you are making a lasting difference in communities around the world. Rotary Direct, Rotary’s recurring giving program, makes it easy to join the Paul Harris Society.

With 50% of donations from the Annual Fund being returned back to Districts to manage, it is an effective vehicle for supporting projects both overseas and locally. We are encouraged to keep giving, knowing that "every minute of every day someone's life is being improved by our Rotary Foundation.

Over the years Brian has been looking after Rotary Foundation for St Ives, he has hit his annual target every year. This year he is $1,000 short of that figure and encouraged all members to think about giving that 'little extra' to make that 'big difference'. No doubt we don't want Brian to miss his target in what will be his final year as Rotary Foundation Director! No doubt we don't want to fall short of our commitment to helping others and making a difference.

Megan presents Rotary Banner from Canada

Megan has been missing from our meetings for a couple of months as she's been enjoying several mini holidays in Australia and overseas. One of her adventures took her on the ship SS Noordam where she was able to attend service meetings. She is seen here presenting President Murray with a banner from Rotary Club L'Ancienne Lorette, Quebec, Canada. You are looking so refreshed Megan, a picture of health and happiness, as is evidence in your smile here.

Great to see you back Megan!

Please RSVP Roster for Tree of Joy

Our Wednesday Meeting This Week

The Cerebral Palsy Alliance Story

Tonight Marelle Thornton took us on a journey … a journey of discovery about Cerebral Palsy, and of coming to understand the scope and magnitude of the work done of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. In 2011

The Spastic Centre (founded in 1945 by a concerned group of 25 parents of children with Cerebral Palsy, under the leadership of Audrie and Neil McLeod) changed its name to Cerebral Palsy Alliance to focus attention on CP, and pay tribute to our alliance of clients, families, staff, donors, volunteers, government and researchers. It was the first organisation of its type in the world for people with Cerebral Palsy.

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a physical disability that affects movement and posture, but can affect speech, hearing, vision, learning and behaviour. It is a permanent life-long condition, but generally does not worsen over time. It is due to damage to the developing brain either during pregnancy or shortly after.

Through the efforts of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, their family network and volunteers, Australia continues to be a world leader in best practice for their programs for children and adults. They continue to make a critical impact in the area of research to help solve the medical puzzle of how and why Cerebral Palsy occurs.

We were surprised learn of the range of best practice service delivery undertaken the Cerebral Palsy Alliance from respite care (including a centre at St Ives), world-class research, community living, employment placement programs, day care programs and to online courses for carers, Their scope and contribution to best practice service delivery is enormous!

Marelle is a lady whose depth of knowledge cannot help but impress. In November 2014 Marelle stepped down as President of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance after 31 years of voluntary service. She remains a staunch advocate for advancing continued research and improvement of services.

Marelle introduced us to the modern Greek word “Meraki”, often used to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you’re doing, whatever it may be.’ It is clear everything Marelle and her husband Stuart have done over nearly four decades has been done with soul, creativity and love. It was an honour to have Marelle and Stuart Thornton join us at Rotary this week. Clearly the Greek word Meraki can be applied to your lives of commitment to support families and children through your work for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.

In Marelle’s words “38 years ago I was a young mother who entered the door of hope when I walked into the Spastic Centre, now known as the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.” Their 38 year-old daughter, Katie, remains their motivation, and her strength continues to inspire them to live a Meraki life.

Thank you Marelle for a truly informed and inspiring talk.

Members who would like to learn more about the work of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, or how to make a positive contribution to their work please visit: https://www.cerebralpalsy.org.au

Happy Diwali

Thinking of all our Indian friends and wishing you an enlightened Deepavali‪ / Diwali Festival of LIghts.

Rotary Down Under - November 2015

Your Rotary Down Under (November Issue 578) has been delivered this week. If you would prefer to read it online please go to: http://digitaledition.rotarydownunder.com.au/#folio=1

Ravi Ravindran, President, Rotary International has a message about 'Education, understanding and peace' that is a great start to the issue this month. 'The Burning Question' continues to provide provocative thinking about important issues and this month is no exception. The article that caught my attention is "Are Rotarians philanthropists or social investors?" ... sounds like the start of a good discussion!

In fact this month's Rotary Down Under is packed with stimulating articles that will promote thinking about Rotary ways and the ways in which we can contribute and continue to give of ourselves by being a 'Gift to the World'.

Happy reading everyone!

Lest we forget

All St Ives Rotarians needed!

Check out our new Food and Wine Festival website

Please take time to check out our newly launched Food and Wine Festival website:

http://www.stivesfoodandwine.com

Next Rotary Meeting Wednesday 11 November

Remember that next week we will be at Canisius House and there will be a Board Meeting prior to the meeting.

Celebrating The Melbourne Cup

November Waratah

Pleased to advise an email with the November issue of Waratah has been sent to your email account tonight.

NEW 2016 St Ives Food and Wine Festival website launched today!

Delighted to advise the NEW 2016 St Ives Food and Wine Festival website was launched this afternoon!

It would be greatly appreciated if you could visit the following sites and share them with your family and friends.

NEW website at: http://www.stivesfoodandwine.com

Remember to also visit and 'Like' our Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/stivesfoodandwinefestival

Keep watching our social media pages as updates will continue to be made.

Special thanks to Evan Shapiro who has worked with us to make this happen.

Rotary Club of St Ives Melbourne Cup Celebrations

Pride of Workmanship Awardees Honoured at St Ives Rotary

There are times when being in Rotary makes you feel so inspired that you just want to shout out loud and let everyone know! Tonight was one such evening. The six recipients of the Pride of Workmanship Awards were all so deserving and clearly worthy of the award … the kind of people we would like to have in our Rotary Club. Giving more than expected, providing service above self, and through their working lives demonstrating the personal qualities of excellence and commitment. The 2015 Pride of Workmanship Awards were given to:

Sharon Gordon - St Ives Shopping Village 

Justine Cooper - Ku-ring-gai Fitness & Aquatic Centre 

Giuseppe Galluzzo - North Shore Tailors 

Louise Bourke - NSW State Emergency Service 

Enid Leviin - St Ives North Public School After School Care 

Helene Rome - St Ives North Public School After School Care

Your awards are a token acknowledgement of the difference you make to the lives of people you come in contact with every day. Congratulations and thank you.

John, Sharon and President Murray

George, Justine and President Murray

Giuseppe and President Murray

Louise and President Murray

Di, Enid, Helene and President Murray

A special mention of thanks goes to Greg Rappo for adding an extra sparkle, good humour and style as MC for the evening. Thanks also to George Papallo for your sage wisdom about the importance of the Pride of Workmanship Awards and how it fits into the Rotary motto.

George and Greg

Welcome back to St Ives Rotary Jerry Casburn

Briony and Jerry Casburn may reside in Adelaide, but there is always a home for them here when they visit. Good to see former St Ives Rotarian, and now District Governor (Adelaide) Jerry Casburn, share the evening with us. Fantastic to learn about what you've been doing in Adelaide and to hear of your latest travel cruises overseas. Your mates at St Ives Rotary miss you Jerry!

Photo below shows Greg Rappo MC with Jerry Casburn from Adelaide

Wonderful Wal

Having lived 99 years on this planet is clearly good for you! Wal joined us this evening and it is always good to hear from the wise one. As one of the founding members of St Ives Rotary Club Wal has fifty years of service above self and mentorship behind him. Hearing Wal deliver philosophic words of wisdom is always a show-stopper and worthy of attention … and we were not disappointed tonight! Thank you for joining us for this special evening tonight Wal … we are always the richer for your company.

Pride of Workmanship tonight!

Looking forward to Rotary Wednesday night as we celebrate Pride of Workmanship!

The Pride of Workmanship Program is designed to acknowledge any member of our community, irrespective of age or vocation, who displays outstanding qualities in terms of approach, dedication, attitude and commitment to service.

The 2015 people in our community we will honour are:

Sharon Gordon - St Ives Shopping Village
Justine Cooper - Ku-ring-gai Fitness & Aquatic Centre
Giuseppe Galluzzo - North Shore Tailors
Louise Bourke - NSW State Emergency Service
Enid Leviin - St Ives North Public School After School Care
Helene Rome - St Ives North Public School After School Care

Important News: Friday 23 October

On 23 October, we will kick off World Polio Day celebrations with a special event that will shine a light on Rotary’s leadership in the fight to end polio.

The End Polio Now: Make History Today event, live-streamed from New York City, will provide a global update on the status of polio eradication from experts in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and will feature performances and appearances by celebrity ambassadors and other notables

Time magazine Senior Editor Jeffrey Kluger is our moderator, and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake is a keynote speaker.

Watch the live program at endpolio.org on Friday, 23 October, at 18:30 Eastern time (UTC-4) (9.30am Saturday, Sydney time) and take part in the conversation using #endpolio.

If you can’t join us then, you can still be a part of this moment in history. A recording of the event will be available immediately following the broadcast. Use it to update your government representatives, or show it as part of your local World Polio Day celebration or club meeting program.

Share this tweet to encourage others to join us.

You can continue to support the fight against polio after World Polio Day through Miles to End Polio. On 21 November, General Secretary John Hewko and a team of Rotary staff will join Rotary members from Arizona and around the world in El Tour de Tucson to raise funds for polio eradication. Their current fundraising goal is $10 million.

Districts can help reach this goal with a special Miles to End Polio DDF donation. The district that contributes the most will receive a visit from President-elect John Germ. To donate DDF, please complete and return this form by 30 November. Personal contributions can also be made.

Now that Nigeria has stopped polio, we are one step closer to a polio-free world. But our fight isn’t over. There’s still work to be done in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two remaining polio-endemic countries. Donate today and your donation will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

With your help, we are “this much closer” to ending polio.

Sincerely,
The PolioPlus Team

Meeting one of St Ives community leaders

Rabbi Gad Krebs may be a young man when compared to the age of the audience, but he certainly impressed us with this eloquent style of communication, depth of knowledge, and willingness to engage in honest and open discussions. Some may have been surprised with his candor, and the nature of the discussion about what it really means to be Jewish. He was clearly well received by our members, as was evidenced by the question time engagement, and for some members the discussions and questions could have gone on and on! Thank you for your time and for being such an impressively transparent and communicative community leader.

St Ives Rotarians at work!

Part of the fabulous team from St Ives Rotary who sold out their BBQ in record time on Sunday 18 October!

Wednesday 21 October Guest Speaker - Rabbi Gab Krebs

Cheers!

Cheers everyone!! Another great night at St Ives Rotary Club with our Wine Tasting evening tonight. Thank you to John Dewar of Peterson's Wines from the Hunter Valley for sharing your wonderful wines. It was a great evening! Time to relax and enjoy social time with our friends at St Ives Rotary Club.

Thinking about what Rotary is and is not!

Not too late to bring a guest! Let Judy know if you have a guest you would like to bring!

The olive farmer: Chris Iacono - a man of passion!

It is passion that propels human endeavours to achieve excellence. It is passion for what you do that makes a good company great – and Bunna Bunoo is clearly a great company!

This week at Rotary we met Chris Iacono, owner of family managed olive grove Bunna Bunoo located on the Paterson River in the Hunter Valley region. Chris is a wonderful character and absolutely passionate about olives!

Chris is passionate about every aspect of olive farming – growing, harvesting, bottling and pressing them for oil. This commitment to best practice impacts every aspect of production and keeps him at the cutting-edge of technology to ensure the best for his olive farm. Life gets a bit hectic around harvesting time in May/June, but Chris is out looking after his trees 365 days of the year. According to Chris, “it all begins with the welfare of the trees”. He even fielded questions from one member who has a couple of olive trees in their back yard that are not thriving - Chris is absolutely an authority on every aspect of olives!

If you would like to try these wonderful olives and olive oil you can order online at http://www.bunnabunooolives.com.au or better still organize a group of friends and go up to the Hunter Valley and visit Bunna Bunoo.

Thank you Chris for such an enthusiastic and informative talk – we loved your passion for what you do – you were inspiring!

Rotary Club of St Ives celebrate International Teachers' Day

Wednesday 7 October Meeting

Right now you are doing something 880 million can't!

Historical photos helped tell the dramatic story

Nothing phased Noel last night at Rotary as he fielded a flood of questions after his talk about the HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager collision. Noel’s depth of knowledge is impressive about things historical, and his engineering background gave such an enlightened perspective about the worst peacetime naval disaster. The photographic presentation really brought to life the magnitude of this event in our naval history.

Di might have been delighted about being the winner of the door prize donated by the Australian National Maritime Museum, but we all know Barry is the one who will really relish the visit! Thank you Noel for being a wonderful speaker, and for the family guest pass to the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Bernie crunched his way through our questions!

Scottish immigrant William Arnott could never have imagined the future for his biscuits when he opened his bakery on Hunter Street, Newcastle in 1865. Claude Bennie crunched his way through the history of Arnotts and everyone enjoyed reflecting on the humble beginnings of this famous Australian iconic company ‘Arnottt’s’.

Milk Arrowroots launched 1888 and today it’s hard to make a decision when facing supermarket shelves stacked with Iced VoVos, Spicy Fruit Rolls, Ginger Nuts, Mint Slices, Scotch Fingers and Monte Carlos … just to mention just a few!

One wonders if Vita-Weats would be so popular without those tiny holes through which generations have had fun squeezing “worms” of butter or Vegemite, but it’s a memory we all share.

It’s an Aussie tradition to have a jar of bikkies ready to share with visitors, and little wonder Arnott’s biscuits are most likely to be in the jar – they are not a household favourite without good reason!

Noel Phelan - wonderful guest speaker this week!

You are invited to a talk on the HMAS MELBOURNE and HMAS VOYAGER collision – AUSTRALIA’S worst peacetime naval disaster on Wednesday 23^rd September.

Just 51 years ago the destroyer HMAS Voyager was cut in two by the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne with the loss of 82 lives. Find out how it happened? Could it have been avoided? Has the blame really been fairly apportioned?

Your speaker will be Noel Phelan. Noel's first career was as a science and mathematics teacher. He then moved into IT with IBM where he spent 25 years in various technical and management positions.

He has been a volunteer guide at the Maritime Museum for several years and enjoys showing visitors over HMAS Vampire, HMAS Advance, HMAS Onslow and First Lady.

Noel is Immediate Past President of Northbridge Rotary and he is an active volunteer in retirement with sailability and a director and sailing captain of his sailing club. Noel also spent several years with Marine Rescue and the Rural Fire Service.

LUCKY DOOR PRIZE FROM THE MARTITIME MUSEUM

There will be a lucky door prize of a family pass to the Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour valued at $70.

SPECIAL OFFER

Your attendance at this talk entitles you to a SPECIAL OFFER of 20% discount for group tours of over 10 people and 1 year membership. 1 year concessional membership is available for $48 and has the following benefits:

Free entry to the museum every day
Two guest passes
20% discount for 4 guests
Free tea and coffee in the members lounge
Subscription to the SIGNALS magazine
Invitations to events at discounted prices

This is a great opportunity to take friends and any grandchildren on an exciting day out in a beautiful location and also a wonderful gift for that special occasion.

The History and Science of Arnotts Biscuits

We've all got a favourite Arnotts biscuit, but wonder how many of us know much about the science behind the making of this famous Australian iconic company. This Wednesday we are delighted to have Claude Bennie as our guest speaker who will speak to us about the Science and History of the Arnotts Biscuit company.

What a night at Rotary this week!

We had a truly wonderful evening at Rotary with Turramurra Rotary Club joining us on Wednesday. Two clubs, two speakers and twice the fun! The amazing Susane Rae joined us this week as our guest speaker, and she was absolutely inspiring!! Suzane said she “dreamed up the Worlds Greatest Meal” as a way of raising enough money to vaccinate nearly four million children. The idea is a simple one and everyone can participate. Just plan an event and visit the website to register it. We can follow progress on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/Meal2endpolio

Susane’s concept is a good one and makes an enormous challenge seem very achievable – we can do it! The many threads of Rotary around the world are uniting behind this concept and it absolutely gave us motivation to do something that is both fun and meaningful - to end polio.

For more details visit: https://www.facebook.com/Meal2endpolio/photos/a.736173073060035.1073741827.735866013090741/1071200202890652/?type=1

We were very fortunate to also have Nuli Lemoh give us an update about the good work being done at Bo Children’s Hospital. Makes you proud to be a Rotarian!

A quote from Paul Harris

Posted by Di Barnes on Sep 07, 2015

“The best antidote for international fear is international understanding; the best way to cultivate international understanding is through business and social intercourse.”
Message from Paul Harris to 1928 Pacific Rotary Conference, Tokyo, Japan

District Governor visits St Ives Rotary

This week we were delighted to welcome our District Governor, Gina Growden to our club. Gina and her husband Harold are visiting all clubs in our district and sharing the Rotary message, as well as getting to better know individual clubs and their projects. Gina and Harold both specifically promoted the Conference in Canberra next March and reminded us that registration before 30 November will ensure the Early Bird discount.

Another strong message Gina shared was the value of Rotary ethics and getting back to basics that are built on caring, welfare and fellowship within the Rotary family. Our district proudly has 24% female members which is above world averages and Gina encouraged members to aim to increase this number further. St Ives Rotary strongly supports the Rotary Foundation and continues to support efforts to eradicate Polio. We are clearly on track and positively promoting Rotary International.

Gina presented President Murray with a cap and gave her thanks for his leadership at St Ives Rotary.

1st September is Wattle Day!

The first recognised use of wattle as a symbol of the first day of spring was the formation in 1899 of a 'Wattle Club' in Victoria by Mr A. J. Campbell, a field naturalist. For several years the club organised bush outings on the first day in September. The first suggestion of a Wattle Day was made by Mr Campbell during a speech in September 1908. The first wattle day was celebrated in 1910 in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. In 1913, the national Wattle Day League was established to organise the celebration of Wattle Day. On 19 August 1988, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) was officially proclaimed as Australia's national floral emblem by the then Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen^.Four years later, 23 June 1992, Bill Hayden, the then the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, declared that '1 September in each year shall be observed as "National Wattle Day" throughout Australia and in the external Territories of Australia'. 2010 was the centenary of the celebration of wattle day on 1 September 1910 in NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

Waratah -September issue

Just a reminder that the September issue of Waratah was emailed out to members tonight. Please let Di know if you did not receive a copy in your email inbox. Happy reading!

Look out for your issue of September Rotary Downunder

The September issue of Rotary Downunder has arrived electronically so look out for it in your letterbox next week. As always it is packed with interesting articles to inspire us. In particular look out for the new section titled 'A Burning Question' which discusses whether we should have a Five Way Test .... interesting reading indeed.

What hearing aids can't do ...

Hearing, once damaged, doesn’t repair! It wasn’t all good news from our guest speaker, Dr Louise Collingridge about hearing aids, but this independent audiologist has a wealth of knowledge that is worth knowing!

A few facts you need to know:

One in six Australians suffers from hearing loss.
Almost 80% of those over 80 years of age have hearing loss.
Provision of audiology services is unregulated in Australia.
Unlike other aspects of healthcare, business owners, without qualifications, leverage financial opportunities in this business climate.
Beware of commercially driven referral pathways and centres working for undisclosed commissions and sales targets.
Independent audiologists have no financial links with any of the hearing aid companies that supply products.
Independent audiologists receive no financial incentives to fit specific hearing device brands.
Independent audiologists prescribe and dispense devices as part of a rehabilitation package suited to each individual’s need based on a professional audiological assessment.
It is important that Audiology becomes a registered profession in Australia.

What hearing aids can and can’t do:

Hearing aids amplify and filter sounds – they do not restore hearing.
With training and time, the brain can usually (but not always) learn to recognize and interpret sound that has been amplified and filtered through hearing devices.
Hearing devices need to be individually set to the way the ears and brain process sounds.
Individual audiological assessments underpin expert hearing aid fitting.
Once fitted, hearing aids must be worn routinely to derive benefit.

An important “take home message” is that recipients need to have realistic expectations around what a hearing device can do as there are limitations and they will not “fix” your hearing. It’s important to recognize that improving communication requires behavioural effort and practice as well as use of a hearing device.

If you have had a bad experience getting hearing aids you might want to participate in this survey:

If you have had a bad experience with hearing aid sales inform the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACC Survey on hearing aid aids runs until 6 November 2015 so share your experience at: https://consultation.accc.gov.au/compliance-

enforcement/hearing-aid-survey

John giving our guest speaker a Certificate of Appreciation

Hearing Awareness Week

23-29 AUGUST IS HEARING AWARENESS WEEK
One in six Australians is deaf, deaf-blind, hearing impaired, or has a chronic ear disorder. Hearing Awareness Week provides an opportunity to explain that hearing health is an important issue for every Australian.

For more information visit: www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au/

Sensational South America

Wednesday night we covered the highlights of Brazil, Peru, Chile and Argentina, all in one evening, thanks to Joanna!! She had the most delightful sense of humour and way of story-telling that charmed us and made us laugh … like the missing passport, and not taking photos out of the bus emergency exit window!! Joanna, thank you for your keen insights, not only into the wonderful locations you visited, but also for conveying a real sense of what it was like visiting these countries.

It’s not often that Rotarians spontaneously break into song at meetings, but you managed to have us singing a Simon and Garfunkle song and The Girl from Ipanema. Well done Joanna, I think here are a few people ready to book a flight to South America!

Celebrating a Golden Wedding Anniversary

Sincere congratulations to John T and Jane Ann who are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary on the 21st August.

Off to South America this Wednesday!

We're off to South America this Wednesday thanks to Joanna! Her recent holiday to South America has left her totally enthralled and looking forward to sharing some of her discoveries of the trip. Colourful countries, people and stories. Looking forward to a mini holiday abroad this week.

Nepal Earthquake - ongoing needs

Zyra McAuliffe was an articulate, informed and passionate guest speaker last night as she shared her knowledge of Nepal. Zyra has been many things in her life: a registered nurse; a lighting technician, an executive assistant, a writer and a creative executive in the film industry. She has worked in Sydney, Los Angeles, New York and Melbourne. In April of this year Zyra was in between homes and in between careers. Unsure as what next to do with her life, she went on a solo trekking holiday to Nepal for some peace, calm and quiet reflection. It did not work out as planned. On the fourth day of her trek she was caught up in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated the already impoverished nation. Whilst most tourists rushed to leave, several stayed to contribute what they could in the relief effort. Zyra was one of those tourists. An extraordinary experience, an extraordinary young Australian, with an extraordinary story to tell.

End Polio Now

11 August marks a tremendous milestone: one full year without a single case of polio caused by wild poliovirus in Africa.

The magnitude of this achievement can hardly be overstated. A polio-free Africa has been within sight, so near and yet so far, for over a decade. The hard work and commitment that have brought us to this point have been nothing short of heroic. Tens of thousands of health workers reached hundreds of millions of children with vaccine, in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Together, we have done what once seemed impossible: We have stopped polio in Africa.

Yet this progress, momentous as it is, is still fragile. As long as polio exists in the two remaining endemic countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the virus still has the potential to spread and to spark new outbreaks. Now, more than ever, we need the power of all of Rotary to carry us through to the end: not just a polio-free Africa, but a polio-free world.

Wherever you live, whether your country has just conquered polio or has been polio-free for decades, we need your voice, and your help. I ask all of you to read and use the materials in this tool kit to find ways to raise awareness in your community, and beyond. We need every Rotarian, in every Rotary club, to be talking about polio: making sure that media outlets report on our progress and our elected officials see polio eradication as a global priority. Your grassroots work helps drive the increased media coverage we have seen in the past year, which in turn drives global backing of our work to eradicate polio. Together, we will keep polio front and center in our communities and on our national agendas, keeping up the energy and the momentum that will push us through to the finish.

The battle in Africa has, for the moment, been won, but we need the strength of every Rotarian to help us win the war. Together, we will End Polio Now and truly Be a Gift to the World.

Warm regards,
K.R. Ravindran
President, Rotary International

- See more at: http://rotarydistrict9685.org.au/stories/africa-goes-one-year-without-a-case-of-polio/#sthash.rlEN0l56.dpuf

Rotarians stand up for Peacock Spider!

You should have seen Rotary at work tonight! Nothing like a 2mm little spider to have Rotarians crowding around a table! Our fabulous guest speaker, Jergun Otto, enlightened us about the 39 species of Peacock spider to be found in Australia. He had some amazing video clips to share with us about their mating rituals and some live specimens to meet. We had much to learn about these wonderful little gems, and it was a matter of everyone up on their feet and crowding around the table when Jergun put two spiders on the table after dinner!! Due respect to our guest entomologist tonight – inspiring research! And to think these gorgeous colourful spiders can be found in our local Ku-ring-gai National Park – very special evening to get up close and personal.

Be warned! Peacock Spider videos are addictive!

Do you want to learn more about Jergun Otto’s work with the Peacock Spider? Here are some useful websites and videos to entertain your family and friends.

Good introduction to Jergun Otto’s research: Catalyst program (2:50 mins)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3160792.htm

Entertaining ritual dance set to didgeridoo music is just mesmerizing! (3:02) mins

Male Coastal peacock spider appealing to a potential female mate. https://www.youtube.com/user/Peacockspiderman

Mating ritual can be dangerous – male eaten alive by the female! (6:22)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg

Peacock spider dances to YMCA – Will make you smile!!! (1:31)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g

Meet the 36 species Peacock Spider Family!

https://www.facebook.com/PeacockSpider/photos/a.491208367655956.1073741827.308773592566102/666908576752600/?type=1&theater

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59431731@N05/sets

Meet the Peacock Spider this Wednesday

So looking forward to learning more about the amazing Peacock Spider this Wednesday from Jergun Otto.

August Rotary Downunder

The new issue of Rotary Downunder has arrived! As always, it is full of fabulous articles. Don't miss the inspiring article "A dozen ways to make a difference". This month you will see some new sections so be sure to look for "A Burning Question" and "Club Confidential". Great to see the faces of our new District Governors! Happy reading everyone.

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August is Membership Month

Wednesday 5 August Meeting - The Peacock Spider

On Wednesday 5 August our guest speaker for the evening will be Jurgen Otto who first discovered the Peacock Spider in our Ku-ring-gai National Park in 2005. The Peacock Spider is a tiny colourful spider that when seen close-up seems to have a big personality. Now 37 speciies of the spider have been identified!

We would like to have robust numbers for this evening and you are invited to share the following information with your friends and neighbours - especially if you have friends who are bush walkers or live close to the National Park. It is essential that any member of the public who wants to come needs to pay $30 for dinner before next Tuesday. If sharing this information with friends and neighbours please make sure they understand that BOOKINGS AND PAYMENT AHEAD OF THE EVENING ARE ESSENTIAL. They need to PHONE 94494559 to reserve a booking. Details of the venue in St Ives will only be provided after payment.

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Waratah - August 201

Posted by Di Barnes on Jul 28, 2015

The Waratah - August 2015 edition, has been sent as an email to all Rotarians today. Please take the time to read it and give Di any feedback you believe will help improve our bulletin. The next Waratah will be published in September. Dynamic news will continue to be shared via email, Clubrunner and Facebook.

East Indies - Spices, Gun- powder and Opium!

We are in for a treat this week as we step back in time with Ian Burnet this Wednesday as he follows the trade winds, and trade routes across the East Indies and the Orient. Beginning in Malacca, which was one of the world’s largest trading ports in the 16th century, he will talk about the inter-related trade of spices, gunpowder and opium ... we are in for a fascinating journey!

End Polio Now!

Reminder - Pride of Workmanship Nominations are open!

Rotarians are reminded that nominations are open for the Pride of Workmanship Awards for 2015. Please download Nomination Forms from the left-hand box on Clubrunner Homepage titled Download Files. Remember you need to discuss the nomination with your nomineee, complete form and deliver to Greg R before 30 September. Speak to Greg directly if you have any questions.

ERADICATION OF POLIO MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER

POLIO NEWS BREAK … POLIO NEWS BREAK … POLIO NEWS BREAK …

In a major breakthrough in the world Polio Eradication campaign, it was announced on Friday that Nigeria has now gone ONE YEAR with NO new cases of the wild poliovirus! Making the announcement, Rotary International senior leaders – President Ravi Ravindran and The Rotary Foundation Chairman Ray Klinginsmith – pointed out that it was only a decade ago that polio struck 12,631 people in Africa – three quarters of all cases in the world. President Ravindran and Chairman Klinginsmith congratulated Rotarians around the world who have now donated $688.5 million to fight polio throughout Africa, including more than $200 million in Nigeria.

Official sources state that with the infrastructure put in place by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Nigeria not only reduced its polio caseload by 90% in 2014, but also thwarted the world’s most lethal Ebola outbreak to day in only 90 days – a response faster than even the USA, and rightly praised by the World Health Organisation as ‘world class’. If the stringent World Health Organisation testing criteria are met, Nigeria could be removed from the list of polio-endemic countries in September this year, leaving just Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only two remaining polio-endemic countries. District 9685 Rotary Foundation Chairman PDG Tony Castley added his congratulations to those of our world leaders and urged District TRF Chairman and Club Presidents not to take the situation for granted.

“We must continue to intensify our fund raising efforts and increase public awareness that Rotary and its global partners are winning the war against Polio! “Protecting progress achieved to date means enhancing surveillance, routine immunisation, and community engagement in Nigeria and other countries where transmission has been stopped,” he said. Chairman Tony urged his TRF Chairman to take advantage of this excellent news and double their efforts with District clubs leading into and during TRF month in November. “We need to encourage ALL Rotarians to take an interest in the campaign and share the good news with their communities and neighbourhoods. Visit www.endpolio.org to download a toolkit of materials to help promote our Polio Eradication campaign,” he added.

Thank you Associate Professor Peter Tuchin!

The statistics Associate Professor Peter Tukin shared are staggering! 85% of Australians will have significant back pain during their lifetime and cost billions of dollars to the health budget, not to mention the cost of human suffering. Peter challenged our thinking on Wednesday evening and apart from sharing important facts about spinal care, gave us extremely practical and helpful advice about how to avoid problems! Doubt any of the audience will sit cross-legged during a Rotary evening again! Everyone left with a higher commitment to become more active and ensure we walk more, swim more and consider taking up yoga. Thank you Peter, we all now know the importance of treating our back care with the same attention we give to our teeth - that is a check up at regular intervals and not just when we have a problem! Peter extended an invitation to Rotarians to have a free check up at his clinic and many signed up on the night. Peter, your depth of knowledge and enthusiasm to share your experience and wisdom with us was highly valued.

Wednesday Guest Speaker - Associate Professor Peter Tuchin

This Wednesday our guest speaker is Associate Professor Peter Tuchin who will be talking to us about ‘Spinal Care: staying active and pain free’. Remember if you would like to bring a guest this week then please let our Secretary know by close of business Monday. Timely reminder during National Pain Week that we are focusing on what we can do to maintain optimum care of our spine.

Rotary Down Under - July Edition

Reflections on Club Assembly Meeting

Murray looked right at home at the podium as he led discussions through our Strategic Plan for the coming year. Members enjoyed their "gift" and once again we were reminded of the value of chocolate! Lively discussion and good humour characterised the evening and reminded everyone of what can be achieved when a small group of like-minded people focus their attention on a shared vision. If you missed our meeting you would not have received a copy of our July Waratah, but fear not, a copy has been sent to your email in-box!

Club Assembly Meeting

At our Club Assembly this week we will go through our club's Strategic Plan and communicate how our strategies are aligned to support District and Rotary International goals for 2015-2016.

Farewell Jakob

Past President Dee, Paul, Jane Anne and John T saw Jakob off at the airport Monday. An outstanding Rotary Youth Exchange Student who made his mark on St Ives Rotary Club and all who met him. Happy reunion with your family and friends in Denmark Jakob!

A little bit of vicarious living this Wednesday

Looking forward to some vicarious living at our Wednesday meeting this week as Nosh Mistry takes us on a photographic journey to a remote region of India called Ladakh, and into the Himalayas.

SHINE FOR KIDS

This week we were fortunate to have Gloria Larman, the CEO of "Shine for Kids", a not-for-profit organisation that has been providing support for children impacted by parental incarceration across NSW, Victoria and the ACT for over 30 years. She was accompanied by Dennis van Someren, a Rotarian from Kenthurst Rotary Club, who volunteers his time to support "Shine for Kids". Gloria and Dennis shared heartfelt stories giving us a valuable appreciation of some of the challenges kids face when a parent is incarcerated and we gained an understanding of the important work of "Shine for Kids" – making a real difference to the lives of children.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Rotary membership connects you with a network of passionate community leaders focused on positive change through service. Together we are building peace. Find out how in this video and get involved. www.RotarianActionGroupForPeace.org

CONGRATULATIONS NEW BOARD FOR DISTRICT 9685

SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS TO ST IVES ROTARIAN, JOHN S, WHO IS THE NEW DISTRICT SECRETARY!

Happy first day as President of St Ives Rotary Club Murray

WE'RE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY MURRAY

Happy first day as President of St Ives Rotary Club Murray! We’re with you all the way and looking forward to a wonderful year ahead. Thank you for your time and commitment to our club Past President Dee!

Russell welcoming incoming President Murray.

PAST PRESIDENT DEE THANKS HER BOARD

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT YEAR!

Past President Dee thanking her Board of Directors for their service during the 2014-2015 Rotary year.

A WORTHY RECIPIENT

CONGRATULATIONS JOHN S

John receiving the Gordon W. King Award last night at our Changeover Dinner.

John is a very worthy recipient of this honoured award for Service Above Self.

Congratulations John S!

ST IVES ROTARY CHANGEOVER DINNER REFLECTIONS

The Rotary family around the world is more than 1.2 million strong, in more than 33,000 Rotary Clubs, in more than 200 countries. Tonight at our Changeover Dinner we reflected on the fact that St Ives Rotary Club is made up of a relatively small number of individuals who share a common commitment. We belong to Rotary because we believe that together we can make a contribution to humanity that makes a difference.

CHANGEOVER DINNER WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE

This coming Wednesday evening is our Changeover Dinner. It marks the end of Rotary International's year "Light Up Rotary" under the leadership of Dee, and marks the start of Rotary International's year "Be the Gift to the World" for President Elect, Murray. All members of St Ives Rotary look forward to coming together and celebrating the strengths of our fellowship, acknowledging the year past and committing our support to the year to come.

ROTARY AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Posted by Di Barnes on Jun 20, 2015

HELPING US CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER

Here are some reasons why social media is important to Rotary. It connects us with our Rotary family, not only in our club but, across our district, state, country – indeed the world. We have visitors to our Facebook and website pages from around the globe. Social media is one of the tools available to us to let others know about what we are doing and how they can join us! Share this page with your network. Being a Rotarian is something to be enjoyed, to share with others, to celebrate … and together enhance the work of Rotary International.

Judges - All you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask

Her Honour Judge Elizabeth Olsson skillfully held captive St Ives and Lindfield Rotarians tonight! As she discussed "Judges - All you wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask", it became evident she is so much more than a learned lady of the law. Apart from her professional achievements she is an extraordinarily generous humanitarian. She has been an SES member in Ku-ring-gai for two decades, walked the Kokoda Trail more than once, been an Oxfam Trailwalker, worked with homeless people, built a kindergarten in Nui Dat to name a few of her private-life adventures. Once described as "the fittest judge on the District Court Bench" there is little doubt she is a force to be reckoned with intellectually. It is also clear that she is an inspirational lady and brilliant guest speaker. Thank you for giving us valuable insights into the life of one Judge in the NSW District Courts ... one extraordinary lady - Judge Elizabeth (Liz) Olsson!

Rotary Down Under - June edition

FABULOUS ARTICLES!

Did you know that June is FELLOWSHIPS month?

EXTEND THE HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

Jacob's Final Presentation

Jakob's Final Presentation and thanks to host families.

Reminder - Wednesday 17 June

Our special guest speaker next week is Judge Elizabeth Olsson, whose presentation is titled: "Judges: Everything you always wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask".

Lindfield Rotary Club will be joining us for this special evening and of course partners and guests are always welcomed. Please remember to RSVP to Judy by end of business Monday 15 June if you are bringing guests.

Reminder - Wednesday 10 June Meeting

Our wonderful international exchange student, Jakob, will deliver his final presentation to our club this week. Jakob has been an outstanding ambassador for Denmark, and we have been delighted to have him with us for the last year. We all look forward to hearing of his reflections on his time in Sydney Australia.

Rotary 30th Anniversary of Polio Plus Program

Today at ‪#‎ricon15‬, Bill Gates congratulated Rotary on the 30th anniversary of the Polio Plus program. Thanks to Rotary members’ vision in 1985 of a polio-free world, we’ve made incredible progress and are closer than ever to ending polio. Get involved: http://www.endpolio.org/

Room to Read Donation

The smiling faces say it all don't they?! Rotary Club of St Ives presented John Keith, Board Member of Room to Read Australia, with a cheque for $16,000, being half the proceeds from our inaugural St Ives Food and Wine Festival, held on 1st March.

Room to Read is a highly respected international organisation that promotes education and gender equality by building and resourcing schools and libraries in 10 countries in Asia and Africa and publishing books in 27 Local languages. More details about this wonderful organisation are available on their website www.roomtoread.com.

Thanks again go to all our wonderful sponsors, and the community, for supporting our St Ives Food and Wine Festival initiative. With outcomes like this we look forward to making our 2016 event an even bigger success.

Reminder - Wednesday 27 May Meeting

Wednesday 27 May our guest speaker will be John Keith, Board Member of Room to Read Australia. At this meeting we will be presenting Room to Read with a cheque for $16,00 from our inaugural St Ives Food and Wine Festival.

Room to Read is a highly respected international organisation that promotes education and gender equality by building and resourcing schools and libraries in 10 countries in Asia and Africa and publishing books in 27 Local languages. A fact sheet on Room to Read is attached and further details are available on their website www.roomtoread.com.

PARRA Amble-amble postponed

Posted on May 23, 2015

The family friendly event to commemorate the 100th Anniversary that was to be held Sunday 24th May has been postponed until November. Please refer to www.parra-amble.com for further details.

Ku-ring-gai's Got Talent - supporting local youth

Posted by Di Barnes on May 18, 2015

The Rotary Club of St Ives, together with the Ku-ring-gai Council, and the Turramurra Rotary Club, were proud to be part of the Ku-ring-gai's Got Talent 2015 - a wonderful community project giving youth in our area the opportunity to show their performance skills.

Thanks to all Rotarians who did such a great job with the sausage sizzle, and the organisation of this event. Two evenings of Heats, followed by the amazing Grand Final made for a very special event - and what a night it was!

Special thanks to the Ku-ring-gai Council for such a fantastic initiative, and for engaging community groups to support our young people - Rotary enjoyed being a partner in this event and are looking forward to being part of the team in 2016!

Be sure to check out the website for this fantastic event as it showcases some amazing young talent: https://www.facebook.com/Kuringgaisgottalent

COMBINED MEETING TUESDAY 19 MAY

Having fun and helping others is what Rotary is all about!

Tuesday 19 May the Rotary Clubs of St Ives, Ku-ring-gai, Turramurra and Wahroonga have a combined meeting to present cheques to the charities who are to benefit from the Bobbin Head Cycle Classic held on Sunday 29 March. Over $100,000 in funds to be distributed this week – a must meeting to attend!

Nothing but pats on the back to all concerned and looking forward to growing this event even bigger next year!

Copy of COMBINED MEETING TUESDAY 19 MAY

Having fun and helping others is what Rotary is all about!

Nothing but pats on the back to all concerned and looking forward to growing this event even bigger next year!

Nepal Crisis for discussion this Wednesday

This coming Wednesday St Ives Rotary members will be discussing the club’s response to the Nepal crisis.

In the meantime the urgency of the situation and need for funds now is being highlighted through personal connections of Rotarians. The scale of this humanitarian crisis is such that many organisations are in dire need of help.

Any members who are looking to make personal donations to reliable organizations to maximize the support to Nepal please consider the following and speak to our club members if you wish to have more details before donating.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS – SHELTER BOX AND RAWCS:

ShelterBox Australia

Help provide shelter, warmth and dignity to families who have lost their homes and possessions following the earthquake in Nepal and disasters just like it. ShelterBox helps some of the world's most vulnerable people. Your gift will help us provide them with the tools they need to survive and begin rebuilding their lives.

Donate at: https://app.etapestry.com/bbphosted/ShelterBoxAustralia/OnlineDonation.html

RAWCS Project 75-2014-15

A disaster fund to allow individuals and Rotary Clubs to make tax deductible donations to aid recovery efforts in Nepal. Rotary can and will be involved in the medium to long term recovery effort and that is what this RAWCS fundraising project will be committed to working with the Rotary Club of Hetauda, District 3292 Nepal.

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=865

RAWCS Project 52-2008-09

To fund reconstruction of community facilities after the recent earth quake. To upgrade Dharapani Lower Secondary School which provides services for a number of the surrounding Villages, drawing students from Bhairabi and the two other schools.

Sponsored by Wahroonga Rotary Club, the Dharapani Lower Secondary School, Gorkha District, Nepal project is located is Gorkha District which is very close to the epicentre of the earthquake, in the remote Hills about 60 Km northwest of Kathmandu. As you can imagine, those working on the project are very anxious regarding the safety of the people in the communities where the club has worked for the past eight years and knows so well. While it seems inevitable that there will have been casualties, the club is hoping for the best, especially for the schoolchildren. It is unlikely that any first aid, at least by western standards, will be available for the injured in the hill villages.

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=271&ReturnTo=4

RAWCS Project 78-2014-15

Nepal Earthquake Appeal to fund Humanitarian Aid, Kavre & adjoining Districts, Nepal. To raise funds to be sent to the Rotary Club of Dhulikhel, D3292 Nepal to be used for humanitarian aid and to assist in repairing community facilities throughout the Kavre & adjoining Districts.

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=868

DAVID WATERHOUSE REQUEST (The Entrance Rotary Club) from Theo Glockerman - See JOHN TAINSH

The following was written by David Waterhouse (The Entrance Rotary Club):

"We are both well and staying with Ashok Shrestha a member of the Rotary Club of Dhulikhel in Banepa about 38 km east of Kathmandu. The school we were working on in Sindhuli has come to halt as the workers had to return to their villages to look after their families. Yesterday we travelled the 150 Km up from Sindhuli to help Ashok pack and distribute food packages

"Please refer to the attached, this is the situation that Dianne and I are working in. We are desperately in need of money to buy food. I was wondering if our club and the clubs on the Central Coast or indeed District 9685, could contribute something towards this project. Our problem is that the situation is desperate and we really need funds within the next 3 days as it is a very poor country and they only live from day to day. The foreign aid that is coming in is going to Kathmandu but the outlying Districts also need help. please let me know if you can do anything from your end."

To assist see RAWCS Project 78-2014-15

CASH DONATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUDATION - See GRAHAME RIVETT

Michael Dillon, AM is a long term a famous documentary maker supporter of Nepal and has spoken to St Ives Rotary. Michael is a personal friend of former St Ives Rotarian, Gordon King (now living in Melbourne) and friend of Grahame and Marie. As the founding director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation (AHF) Michael has made numerous trips to help Nepalese, focusing on education in particular. See websites below:

http://www.michaeldillonfilms.com.au/Michael-Dillon.php

http://www.australianhimalayanfoundation.org.au/

https://www.facebook.com/HimagangaFund

COLLECTION OF CLOTHING BY ROSEVILLE CHASE ROTARY – See JOHN STEEL

Through Roseville Rotarians clothing items are being collected next week – please see urgency before 5 May. Drop off donations at the Roseville Golf Club, Links Ave, on Tuesday evening 5 May (their meeting time). Drop off to his residence: C/- Concierge, 29 Shelley Street, King Street Wharf, Sydney. Phone to make arrangements for collection: 0414 56 55 57

Nepal Crisis

This coming Wednesday St Ives Rotary members will be discussing the club’s response to the Nepal crisis.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS – SHELTER BOX AND RAWCS:

ShelterBox Australia

Donate at: https://app.etapestry.com/bbphosted/ShelterBoxAustralia/OnlineDonation.html

RAWCS Project 75-2014-15

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=865

RAWCS Project 52-2008-09

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=271&ReturnTo=4

RAWCS Project 78-2014-15

Donate at: https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectID=868

DAVID WATERHOUSE REQUEST (The Entrance Rotary Club) from Theo Glockerman - See JOHN TAINSH

The following was written by David Waterhouse (The Entrance Rotary Club):

To assist see RAWCS Project 78-2014-15

CASH DONATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUDATION - See GRAHAME RIVETT

http://www.michaeldillonfilms.com.au/Michael-Dillon.php

http://www.australianhimalayanfoundation.org.au/

https://www.facebook.com/HimagangaFund

COLLECTION OF CLOTHING BY ROSEVILLE CHASE ROTARY – See JOHN STEEL

ANZAC PARRA-AMBLE

ANZAC PARRA-AMBLE Discovering the ANZAC spirit in the modern era - SUNDAY 24 MAY 2015

How much do you know about the ANZAC legend? All proceeds from this event go towards the ANZAC Scholarship for PhD Research Grants into post traumatic stress disorder. Cost per team is $35 for 4-6 payers. Find secret checkpoints and complete challenges. If you would like to support Australian Rotary Health and have a great time with friends or family, register your team at: www.parra-ample.com

District Changeover - 27 June

District Governor Ian Scott and District Governor Elect Gina Growden invite us to attend the District Changeover on 27th June to be held at the Hornsby RSL Club. Please mark it in your diary and register online before 17 June.

The cost of the evening is $50 per person and you will need to Register online at: changeover.rotarydistrict9685.org.au

Weather impact on Sunday 3 May

Thank you to Harold and John for the following update about festivals this weekend that many members had planned on attending:

Hunters Hill Food and Wine Festival has been cancelled.

Ku-ring-gai Council Festival on the Green at St Ives is moving indoors (to the shopping centre and community centre)

29 April Meeting Report on Joanne White discussing Alzheimer's Disease and Driving

Joanne is a PhD candidate from the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University. Her passionate dedication to understand people had her abandon a law degree in Tasmania to undertake a bachelors and then honours degree in psychology in Sydney. Joanne has a particular interest in applied cognitive neuropsychology. She regularly teaches, gives presentations and conducts research into the combined areas of cognitive function and driving psychology.

Joanne’s PhD is focused on looking at Alzheimer’s disease and driving ability. In particular, Joanne is working to develop an objective cognitive assessment to determine when individuals with Alzheimer’s disease should cease driving. The decision to remove someone’s driver’s licence is a big one, and as it stands, decisions regarding driving safety are often based on the subjective opinion of doctors and family members. This can mean some people have their licence removed too soon or too late. It is often a very emotional time for the family and for the individual themselves. By developing an objective test which can be administered regularly by a doctor or through the RMS, it is hoped this will alleviate a lot of the stress associated with this decision and ultimately enable individuals with Alzheimer’s to continue to drive for as long as they possibly can, as safely as they possibly can.

St Ives Food and Wine Festival - Sunday 6 March 2016

Posted by Peter Lorschy

Following this highly successful event which raised over $ 30,000 for the club to distribute to various organisations, the club has decided that the festival will be held again in 2016.

Please mark the date, Sunday 6 March 2016, in your diary and consider what role you would like to take on. Your assistance is essential for the success of this project so please, be involved and assist in organising the 2016 Festival.

In prepraration for our own event, it is suggested members visit the Hunters Hill Food and Wine Festival on Sunday 3 May 2015 (held at Boronia Park from 11 am to 5 pm). This festival has been going for 15 years and started with about 4000 visitors and now attracts over 10,000 visitors.

Also consider visiting The Festival on the Green (organised by Ku-ring-gai Council) will also be held on Sunday 3 May at the St Ives Village Green and attracts about 30,000 visitors.

Your visit to one or both of these festivals may prompt ideas which we could incorporate in to our event.

Please consider your options to help us!

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Posted by Murray Lennon

On Wednesday, May 6, Shauna Chadlow, from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, will be presenting a talk entitled" "Back from the brink: restoring Australia's lost and declining biodiversity".

This is a free event and will be held at the Kalkari Discovery Centre, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Ku-ring-gai Chase Road, Mount Colah.

Hello from YES Laura

Message from our YES Laura Chung - please read!!!!

Wal Edwards created OAM

It was a wonderful moment when the Daily Telegraph wrote about our Charter Member, Wal Edwards, announcing his creation as a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day, 26 January 2015!

Wal joins PDG Peter Perry OAM and PDG George Papallo OAM, both members of St Ives Rotary, in this fabulous honour.

Please follow this link to read all about it!

Rotary Theme 2015-2016

The new Rotary Theme for 2015-2016 was announced 18 January 2015 by Rotary International President-elect K.R. "Ravi" Ravindran.

More information can be found here.